Tag: Genetics

Credit: Byers and Bradshaw, 2021 Research into the flower preferences of pollinating moths may have delivered a vital clue to ...

Differences in herpes virus symptoms may relate to variations in strain gene expression

Credit: Colleen Mangold, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Why do some people with cold sores around their lips experience ...

MD Anderson’s Guillermina Lozano elected to fellows of the AACR Academy

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON ? Guillermina (Gigi) Lozano, Ph.D., chair of Genetics at The University of Texas MD ...

New drug to regenerate lost teeth

Antibody for USAG-1 shown to stimulate tooth growthCredit: Kyoto University/Katsu Takahashi Japan -- The tooth fairy is a welcome guest ...

Genetic sleuthing reveals endangered river dolphins in Asia as different species

Tissue collection at NOAA Fisheries lab helps reveal genetic distinctionCredit: Mansur/WCR Bangladesh New genetic analysis and years of painstaking research ...

UMD reports six novel variants for CRISPR-Cas12a in plants, expanding genome engineering

New publication in Nature Communications offers patentable tools to improve the efficiency of food productionCredit: National Institutes of Health, public ...

Caltech professor Ibrahim Cissé applies physics to decode and understand RNA transcription

Nigerien-born physicist is the recipient of a 2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical ScienceCredit: Image courtesy of the ...

Signals from muscle protect from dementia

Scientists at St. Jude are studying how signals sent from skeletal muscle affect the brainCredit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...

Gray’s beaked whales ‘resilient’ to ecosystem changes

Credit: Mark Camm An elusive whale species in the Southern Ocean could be resilient to near-future ecosystem changes, according to ...

Forest restoration action must prioritize diversity over scale for cheaper, long-term success

Researchers investigating the economic costs of forest restoration find that more up-front investment in tree diversity leads to greater long-term ...

The origin and uniqueness of Basque genetics revealed

A new study reveals that the genetic uniqueness of the Basque population is not due to its external origin in ...

Dogs (not) gone wild: DNA tests show most ‘wild dogs’ in Australia are pure dingoes

It's time to take dingoes out of the doghouseCredit: Chontelle Burns / Nouveau Rise Photography. Almost all wild canines in ...

Salk scientists receive $1.5 million from The Conrad Prebys Foundation’s inaugural grant cycle

Credit: Salk Institute. LA JOLLA--(March 25, 2020) Salk Professor Thomas Albright has been awarded $1 million and Assistant Professor Edward ...

Eat me: The cell signal of death

An 'eat-me' signal displayed on cell surfaces requires activation of a lipid-scrambling protein by a nuclear protein fragmentCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto ...

When synthetic evolution rhymes with natural diversity

Credit: Parys/GMI/UNC-Chapel Hill Researchers at GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, ...

Scientists identify ‘Goldilocks’ protein critical for getting immune response ‘just right’

Credit: Sinai Health Scientists at Sinai Health say they have discovered a new pathway that controls dangerous overreactions in a ...

Researchers improve plant prime editing efficiency with optimized pegRNA designs

Credit: IGDB Precision genome editing enables the precise modification of DNA in living cells, thus enabling a breadth of opportunities ...

Will COVID-19 vaccines need to be adapted regularly?

Credit: Image: Jó/Charité Influenza vaccines need to be evaluated every year to ensure they remain effective against new influenza viruses. ...

A new way to visualize mountains of biological data

Researchers led by the University of Missouri create a new method for analyzing large amounts of biological data to help ...

Plant gene found in insect, shields it from leaf toxins