Illuminating invisible bloody fingerprints with a fluorescent polymer
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c00710 Careful criminals usually clean a scene, wiping away visible ...
Tag: Genetics
Creativity and community: How modern humans overcame the Neanderthals
Study identifies creativity genes that set Homo sapiens apart from close living and extinct relativesCredit: D. Finnin/©AMNH A new study ...
The immune link between a leaky blood-brain barrier and schizophrenia
Research from the the School of Veterinary Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia points to the ...
Chaperone protein imbalance promotes toxic tau buildup in the aging brain
University of South Florida Health study applies a new mouse model of tauopathy, which may help identify therapeutic targets for ...
Chickens and pigs with integrated genetic scissors
Genome editing in farm animalsCredit: A. Heddergott / TUM Researchers at the TUM have demonstrated a way to efficiently study ...
Scientists at IRB Barcelona discover the cause of neurodegeneration in Lafora disease
Credit: IRB Barcelona Lafora disease is an inherited neurodegenerative condition that initially develops with seizures in adolescence and evolves with ...
The British variant is 45% more contagious than the original virus
Study at Tel Aviv University based on data from 300,000 tests for COVID-19Credit: Tel Aviv University A new study at ...
Predicting the onset of diseases
Scientists have created a statistical model that helps them predict when diseases like high blood pressure, heart diseases and type ...
Shedding light on the long and the short of plant growth
Credit: John Innes Centre What keeps some plants squatting close to the soil while others - even those closely related ...
Stone Age black bears didn’t just defecate in the woods – they did it in a cave too
Scientists have sequenced ancient DNA from soil for the first time and the advance will transform what is known about ...
Human land-use and climate change will have significant impact on animal genetic diversity
Credit: Colourbox. Over the last 200 years, researchers have worked towards understanding the global distribution of species and ecosystems. But ...
Study aims to improve health of patients with CF across their increasing lifespan
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University People with cystic fibrosis are living better and longer, and now investigators want to further ...
University of Colorado inter-campus collaboration wins R01 award for salivary gland cancer
Antonio Jimeno, MD, Ph.D., received a grant of nearly $500K from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate a ...
Autism develops differently in girls than boys, new research suggests
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications New research has shed light on how autism-spectrum disorder (ASD) manifests in the brains ...
Japanese-European research team discovers novel genetic mitochondrial disorder
Team of Japanese and European scientists identify a novel genetic mitochondrial disorder by analyzing DNA samples from three distinct familiesCredit: ...
Researchers demonstrate very high specificity of prime editors in plants
Credit: IGDB Prime editing (PE), a "search-and-replace" CRISPR-based genome editing technique, has great potential for gene therapy and agriculture. It ...
Researchers unveil new ‘time machine’ technique to measure cells
Using a new single-cell technique, WEHI researchers have uncovered a way to understand the programming behind how stem cells make ...
Researchers generate human-monkey chimeric embryos
Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Investigators in China and the United States have injected human stem ...
CityU biologists discover super-enhancers that switch on breast cancer genes
Credit: City University of Hong Kong Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive type of breast cancer with a high ...
New benefits from anti-diabetic drug metformin
Metformin inhibits disease progression in non-diabetic chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD)Credit: Professor Hirofumi Kai Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have found ...