New key stages discovered in how plants prepare to make sex cells for reproduction
Birds do it. Bees do it. Plants do it, too. And for good reason: Sexual reproduction has evolved as nature's ...
Tag: Genes
Study merges big data and zebrafish biology to reveal mechanisms of human disease
In a series of studies that volleyed between large databases and research in zebrafish, Vanderbilt investigators have discovered a link ...
Chinese-UK project reveals ancient secrets of medicinal mint
Credit: Botanikfoto, Royalty Free Image The precious chemistry of a plant used for 2000 years in traditional Chinese medicine has ...
TOS president-elect co-authors study on genetic test for obesity
SILVER SPRING, Md.--President-elect of The Obesity Society (TOS) Lee M. Kaplan, MD, PhD, FTOS, has co-authored a new study that ...
Researchers find high-risk genes for schizophrenia
Using a unique computational "framework" they developed, a team of scientist cyber-sleuths in the Vanderbilt University Department of Molecular Physiology ...
DNA is managed like climbers’ rope to help keep tangles at bay
Credit: Davide Michieletto A process that cells use to unravel knotted strands of DNA - resembling a method used to ...
A universal framework combining genome annotation and undergraduate education
New workflow for annotating genomes will help both researchers and undergraduate studentsCredit: Prashant Hosmani As genome sequencing becomes cheaper and ...
Plants are also stressed out
Salk scientists uncover a link between RNA editing and chloroplast-to-nucleus communication that could help plants adapt to a changing worldCredit: ...
Scientists identify a novel target for corn straw utilization
Credit: WU Zhenying Plant cell walls, as repositories of fixed carbon, are an important source of biomass, which is mainly ...
Molecular target UNC45A is essential for cancer but not normal cell proliferation
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Augusta, Ga. (April 19, 2019) - Identifying a protein that plays a key ...
New variety of zebra chip disease threatens potato production in southwestern Oregon
Credit: K. D. Swisher Grimm and S. F. Garczynski St. Paul, MN (April 2019)--Named after the dark stripes that form ...
Estimating the efficacy and cost of curative gene therapy for beta-thalassemia
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 18, 2019--Gene therapy offers the promise of a cure for ...
Cell-killing proteins suppress listeria without killing cells
Credit: Kazuhito Sai, NC State University New North Carolina State University research shows that key proteins known for their ability ...
Crusaders made love and war, genetic study finds
First genetic study of the Crusaders confirms that warriors mixed and had families with local people in the near East, ...
Taming the genome’s ‘jumping’ sequences
The human genome is fascinating. Once predicted to contain about a hundred thousand protein-coding genes, it now seems that the ...
Turning an old enemy into a helpful friend
Half our genome is basically foreign, derived from viruses. Obviously, the invasion of such foreign elements can deregulate critical biological ...
Finding the key to flightlessness
Study explores the genetics behind the evolution of flightless birds Since Darwin's era, scientists have wondered how flightless birds like ...
A light-activated remote control for cells
What if doctors had a remote control that they could use to steer a patient's own cells to a wound ...
Biologists seeking to determine why body gets rid of DNA
Identifying the molecular genetic mechanisms of hybridogenesis will help understand the logic behind evolution Russian biologists, together with their colleagues ...
A thorough characterization of structural variants in human genomes
Human genomes vary quite a bit from individual to individual. These differences include single nucleotide changes, or "spelling mistakes" in ...