Tag: Genetics

Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - Animal biomedical data start-up PetSensus and Insilico Medicine, a company specializing in ...

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 ...

Scientists crack the code to regenerate plant tissues

Can epigenetics help us grow food more efficiently and combat global hunger? Plant regeneration can occur via formation of a ...

New study explains how inflammation causes gastric cancer

Researchers from Kanazawa University and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development show that genes turned on in response ...

New study first to identify cause of rare genetic metabolic disorder

A new study from BC Children's Hospital, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and an international team of researchers published ...

Physician-writer Siddhartha Mukherjee will be awarded the 2019 Lewis Thomas Prize

Siddhartha Mukherjee has delighted, informed, and touched a wide audience through his books and essays, for which he will be ...

Pollen genes mutate naturally in only some strains of corn

Rutgers-led study may lead to improved breeding of corn and other cropsCredit: Hugo Dooner/Waksman Institute of Microbiology Pollen genes mutate ...

Rice advances the art of protein blacksmithing

Researchers forge new computational tools to make more accurate predictions of protein structuresCredit: Rice University/Wikipedia HOUSTON - (April 15, 2019) ...

Gene-based factor VIIa prevents bleeding episodes in animals with hemophilia

CHOP researchers: Preclinical work offers first target levels for bypass agent prophylaxis in future human trialsCredit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ...

MU neurobiologists annotate critical neuronal proteins in lamprey genome

Credit: University of Missouri The lamprey, an eel-like primitive vertebrate, is a popular organism for neurobiology studies because it has ...

Princeton scientists discover an interaction that helps cancers spread to bone

Credit: Image courtesy of Mark Esposito and Yibin Kang A Princeton-led team of researchers have discovered a factor that promotes ...

Decoding cancer’s molecular signature

New algorithm identifies patients harboring tumor-causing defect found in multiple cancers and treatable with common drug Medications known as PARP ...

Genome sequencing lab awarded international quality stamp