Northern Red Sea corals pass heat stress test with flying colors
EPFL scientists are beginning to understand why corals in the Gulf of Aqaba, along with their symbiotic algae and bacteria, ...
Tag: Genetics
Flatfish got weird fast due to evolutionary cascade
Study: Skull asymmetry arose rapidly from trait co-evolutionCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 3, 2021) - Ever look at ...
Plankton have a genome like no other
Credit: © 2021 KAUST The genome of single-celled plankton, known as dinoflagellates, is organized in an incredibly strange and unusual ...
New, rapid CRISPR/Cas9 method identifies key genes in zebrafish spinal cord regeneration
Novel method could also be applied to screen for crucial genes in other biological processesCredit: Keatinge M et al., 2021, ...
Single-cell CRISPR technology deciphers role of chromatin accessibility in cancer
Mapping the 'chromatinome': New integrative functional genomics platform for profiling genome regulation with a massively-parallel screen of chromatin modifiersCredit: Sanjana ...
How reef-building corals got their bones
Credit: © 2021 Morgan Bennett Smith Coral reefs provide shelter, sustenance and stability to a range of organisms, but these ...
CIMMYT and John Innes Centre announce strategic collaboration on wheat research
Credit: Photo: Kevin Pixley/CIMMYT, CIMMYT Centro Experimental Norman E. Borlaug, Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. April 29, 2021. The John Innes Centre ...
Research advances emerging DNA sequencing technology
UT Dallas researcher's nanopore sequencing platform detects presence of nucleobasesCredit: The University of Texas at Dallas Nanopore technology shows promise ...
Unlocking herbaria biodiversity using a QR code sampling-to-sequencing workflow
Credit: California Academy of Sciences Within the past decade, next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized the way in which genetic data ...
Research on Lake Victoria cichlids uncovers the processes of rapid species adaptation
Credit: Tokyo Tech Biologists use the term adaptive radiation to describe a phenomenon in which new species rapidly evolve from ...
Researchers assemble error-free genomes of 16 animals–with another 70,000 coming up
Credit: Chris Birmingham, CC BY 2.0 The flightless kakapo of New Zealand is in trouble. The world's heaviest parrot--representing one ...
Rutgers Professor Joan Bennett elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Plant biologist studies the genetics and physiology of thread-like fungiCredit: Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University Joan W. Bennett, a Distinguished Professor of ...
A minty-fresh solution: Using a menthol-like compound to activate plant immune mechanisms
A menthol-like compound was found to boost the expression of genes that protect crop species from pest-related damageCredit: Tokyo University ...
Proposal of new universal nomenclature for oxytocin and vasotocin genes
Terminological confusion between speciesCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Oxytocin and arginine vasopressin are two hormones in the endocrine system that can ...
Uniting strengths to expand research
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the Italian Institute of Technology have signed an agreement to expand the scope of ...
Improving the QOL for cats with renal disorders using drugs with minimal adverse reactions
Development of a remedy for renal anemia using erythropoietin derived from catsCredit: Kaneka Many cats develop chronic renal disorders as ...
Ageing impairs critical final egg maturation stage
Women's fertility may decline with age due to impaired RNA levelsCredit: Montserrat Barragan/Clinica Eugin Age may adversely affect women's fertility ...
Treating neurological symptoms of CHARGE syndrome
Discovery of a treatment that alleviates some neurological symptoms of a rare genetic disorderCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) CHARGE syndrome is ...
U-M RNA scientists identify many genes involved in neuron development
Credit: Nigel Michki Neurons result from a highly complex and unique series of cell divisions. For example, in fruit flies, ...
Researchers show new holistic approach to genetics and plant breeding
Researchers have discovered new approach to cereal plant breeding that considers the internal calculator of plant seeds that makes them ...