Tag: Genetics

Credit: ©Gina Motisi, 2018/CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - It's no secret that our genes are what makes us... us! ...

Modern beer yeast emerged from mix of European grape wine, Asian rice wine yeast

For thousands of years brewers made beer using specialized strains of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The historical origins of ...

Molecular puzzle reveals unknown stages of fetal development

By applying gene analysis to individual cells from early mouse embryos, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered previously ...

A new way to map cell regulatory networks

Tool reduces material needed to ID transcription factors regulating gene expressionCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI--Faster results. Lower costs. Fewer cells. A ...

Source of citrus’ sour taste is identified

Discovery could enable creation of new, sweeter varieties A team of researchers, including two from the University of California, Riverside, ...

FAU receives $3 million grant for dementia prevention initiative

Credit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University By 2050 about 16 million Americans and 60 million people worldwide will be affected ...

University of Utah biologists experimentally trigger adaptive radiation

Preening drives divergent camouflage in feather lice on both micro- and macro-evolutionary timescalesCredit: Adapted from Bush et. al. 2019. Evo ...

TIGER mouse debuts as model for neurological ailments

Credit: David Feliciano / Victoria Neckles CLEMSON, South Carolina - New research published today in Scientific Reports has devised a ...

Are mosaic embryos the ‘dark horse’ of IVF?

Study in nonhuman primates gives new hope to people seeking infertility treatment; abnormal embryos can result in successful in vitro ...

Genomic testing of a single patient reveals a gene commonly mutated in pediatric melanoma

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital results make the case for comprehensive clinical genomic testing as a tool to find more ...

Radiation after surgery triples survival for a type of pediatric brain tumor

A Children's Oncology Group study shows that postoperative radiation improves outcomes for children with ependymoma, even those with historically poor ...

How new species arise in the sea

Study sheds new light on a fundamental question in evolutionary biologyCredit: Photo: Kosmas Hench/GEOMAR For a new species to evolve, ...

Genetics Society of America joins the Societies Consortium on Sexual Harassment in STEMM

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) has joined the Societies Consortium on Sexual Harassment in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, ...

Scientists expose hidden risks of diarrhoeal disease