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 ...
Tag: Genetics
The architect of genome folding
Epigenetic regulator HPI1a drives de novo genome reorganization in early Drosophila embryosCredit: MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, F. Zenk The ...
RNA holds the reins in bacteria: U-M researchers observe RNA controlling protein synthesis
Credit: Surajit Chatterjee To better understand how RNA in bacteria gives rise to protein--and along the way, target these processes ...
Birds take tRNA efficiency to new heights
Credit: Claudia Kutter Birds have been shaped by evolution in many ways that have made them distinct from their vertebrate ...
Bacteria that cause periodontitis are transmitted from parents to children
A study led by researchers at the University of Campinas reinforces the need for prevention and follow-up treatment starting in ...
Genetic admixture in the South Pacific: from Denisovans to the human immune response
Credit: © Institut Pasteur Describing the genetic diversity of human populations is essential to improve our understanding of human diseases ...
Cultivating Matsutake, valuable edible fungi
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Akiyoshi Yamada et al., under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature Costing ...
New method of artificially creating genetic switches for yeast
Credit: Masahiro Tominaga, Kenta Nozaki, Daisuke Umeno, Jun Ishii, Akihiko Kondo. A group of researchers from Kobe University and Chiba ...
Lab study solves textbook problem: How cells know their size
The answer to a basic science question could unlock the key to complex medical challengesCredit: Image from the Amodeo Lab/Dartmouth ...
Dueling evolutionary forces drive rapid evolution of salamander coloration
Credit: Sean Giery, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Two opposing evolutionary forces explain the presence of the two different ...
Silk moth’s diapause reverts back to ancestors’ through gene editing!?
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Kunihiro Shiomi, Shinshu University Diapause is a phenomenon in which animals and insects foresee changes in ...
Scaling up genome editing big in tiny worms
Credit: : Rajewsky Lab, MDC Understanding the effects of specific mutations in gene regulatory regions - the sections of DNA ...
Smell you later: Exposure to smells in early infancy can modulate adult behavior
Scientists explore how 'imprinting' on some smells by newborn mice affects adult social behaviorsCredit: Hirofumi Nishizumi from University of Fukui ...
Simple genetic modification aims to stop mosquitoes spreading malaria
Genetically modifying mosquitoes to express antimalarial genes and pass them on to their offspring is being tested as a new ...
A novel, quick, and easy system for genetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2
Researchers from Osaka University and Hokkaido University develop a system for analyzing mutations in SARS-CoV-2 that is much simpler and ...
Frog species with 6 sex chromosomes offer new clues on evolution of complex XY systems
The O. swinhoana frog species is the first vertebrate known to retain descendant genes that now determine sex in mammals, ...
For tomato genes, one plus one doesn’t always make two
Credit: Xingang Wang/Lippman lab, CSHL/2021 Both people and tomatoes come in different shapes and sizes. That is because every individual ...
More than the sum of mutations
165 new cancer genes identified with the help of machine learningCredit: MPI f. Molecular Genetics/ Ella Maru Studio A new ...
USC Stem Cell study reveals neural stem cells age rapidly
Researchers at Keck School of Medicine of USC conduct first-ever study of Abl1 gene's role in neural stem cell biology ...
Technique allows mapping of epigenetic information in single cells at scale
Credit: Mandy Meijer Histones are tiny proteins that bind to DNA and hold information that can help turn on or ...
