Skeletal muscle development and regeneration mechanisms vary by gender
The functional importance of estrogen receptor betaCredit: Associate Professor Yusuke Ono Researchers at Kumamoto University, Japan generated mice lacking the ...
Tag: Genes
When it comes to arthritic bone spurs, stem cells hurt instead of heal
Credit: Stephanie Kuwahara/USC Stem Cell The same stem cells that heal broken bones can also generate arthritic bone spurs called ...
Genomes offer new insights into fig-wasp symbiotic system
Credit: WANG Gang Banyan trees are fig trees that begin their life as an epiphyte. The most noticeable feature of ...
NYUAD researchers discover immune evasion strategy used by Malaria-causing parasite
Findings could lay the foundation for the development of effective therapeutic and malaria vaccine strategies, which has largely been hindered ...
Treating cystic fibrosis with mRNA therapy or CRISPR
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 8, 2020--The potential for treating cystic fibrosis (CF) using mRNA ...
Terahertz zaps alter gene activity in stem cells
A new apparatus improves how we study the effects of aiming high-field terahertz radiation at cells, with implications for regenerative ...
Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Credit: UC Berkeley Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence ...
RTL1 gene a likely culprit behind temple and Kagami-Ogata syndromes
Credit: Department of Epigenetics,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) identify a gene associated with symptoms of two ...
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher receives award to study pediatric brain cancer
Prestigious $300,000 Rally Foundation grant supports exploration of a subgroup of pediatric brain tumors that tend to be particularly deadlyCredit: ...
Potential drug treatment for particular type of lung-cancer
Credit: Kanazawa University The effectiveness of cancer treatment is often hampered by cancer cells being heterogeneous. This is the case ...
Diagnosing COVID-19 in just 30 minutes
Credit: POSTECH The year 2020 can be summarized simply by one word - COVID-19 - as it was the culprit ...
Genetic tracing ‘barcode’ is rapidly revealing COVID-19’s journey and evolution
Drexel researchers' method helps uncover patterns in SARS-CoV-2's genetic mutationsCredit: Drexel University Drexel University researchers have reported a method to ...
Carb-eating bacteria under viral threat
Scientists characterize previously unknown gut reactionsCredit: (Purdue University and Seyet LLC) Strictly speaking, humans cannot digest complex carbohydrates -- that's ...
Scientists help reboot 50 years of plant advice to solve one of nature’s biggest challenges
Credit: University of Portsmouth Scientists from the University of Portsmouth and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have come up with a ...
Breaking COVID-19’s ‘clutch’ to stop its spread
Researchers engineer RNA-targeting compounds that disable the pandemic coronavirus' replication engineCredit: Scott Wiseman for Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - Sept. ...
USC-led study traces the evolution of gill covers
Credit: Christine Hirschberger, University of Cambridge) The emergence of jaws in primitive fish allowed vertebrates to become top predators. What ...
About 14% of cerebral palsy cases may be tied to brain wiring genes
NIH-funded study points to genes that control the establishment of neural circuits during early developmentCredit: Courtesy of Dreamstime | ©Jarenwicklund. ...
New study finds novel functions of the pyruvate-sensing protein PdhR in E. Coli
Credit: Microbial Genomics, Tokyo Tech Organisms, ranging from bacteria to humans, run on an interconnected series of metabolic pathways--with glycolysis ...
Analysis of wild tomatoes elucidates genetic basis underlying fruit traits
Credit: IPK Domestication and subsequent intensive breeding of tomato had a major impact on fruit ripening and the myriad metabolic ...
Genetic differences in body fat shape men and women’s health risks
Credit: Courtesy Civelek lab New research is revealing how genetic differences in the fat in men's and women's bodies affect ...