Using genes to improve greenhouse gases conversion
Credit: UQ AIBN Greenhouse gas waste from factories could be turned into environmentally-friendly chemicals and fuels under an international project ...
Tag: Genetics
Cre-controlled CRISPR: Conditional gene inactivation just got easier
Credit: © Stefan Hans To discover the function of a gene researchers turn it off and observe the consequences. Often ...
UMD partners with industry to improve rainbow trout filet production via genomic selection
Research represents the only work of its kind in rainbow trout, a $100 million industry in the U.S. aloneCredit: Public ...
Don’t focus on genetic diversity to save our species
Credit: Image by Philip Barrington from Pixabay. Scientists at the University of Adelaide have challenged the common assumption that genetic ...
New features of a gene defect that affects muzzle length and caudal vertebrae in dogs
Researchers discover new features of a gene defect that affects the length of the muzzle and caudal vertebrae in dogsCredit: ...
New therapeutic target for Huntington’s treatment
New perspective on the role of sRNAs in the diseaseCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Huntington's disease is caused by a mutation ...
Largest comprehensive Middle East GWAS reveals Arab genetic risk factors
QATAR GENOME RESEARCH CONSORTIUM investigators identify genetic associations with 45 clinically relevant traits in the Qatari populationCredit: Qatar Foundation Doha, ...
Basic cell health systems wear down in Huntington’s disease, novel analysis shows
Credit: Sorbonne Université Using an innovative computational approach to analyze vast brain cell gene expression datasets, researchers at MIT and ...
Scientists use DNA origami to monitor CRISPR gene targeting
CRISPR gene editing has transformed research, but it is not perfect, and can sometimes target unintended genes; to watch CRISPR ...
Tool encoded in coronaviruses provides a potential target for COVID-19
Viruses make copies of themselves during an infection, and new research sheds light on one of the coronavirus molecules that ...
Beta blockers can repair malformed blood vessels in the brain
Credit: Joppe Oldenburg Peer review/Experimental study/Animals Propranolol, a drug that is efficacious against infantile haemangiomas ("strawberry naevi", resembling birthmarks), can ...
Scientists use machine-learning approach to track disease-carrying mosquitoes
Using genetic and environmental data, research team maps landscape connectivity in mosquitoes that are known vectors for dengue, chikungunya and ...
Vilcek Foundation video celebrates developmental geneticist Ruth Lehmann
Ruth Lehmann is the recipient of the 2021 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical ScienceCredit: The Vilcek Foundation NEW YORK, Feb. 22, ...
New technique reveals switches in RNA
Structural switches could be targets to fight coronavirusCredit: University of Groningen Scientists at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), in ...
Tweaking corn kernels with CRISPR
Credit: Jackson lab/CSHL, 2021 Corn--or maize--has changed over thousands of years from weedy plants that make ears with less than ...
Down syndrome research biobank launched
Cincinnati Children's Hospital teams with DownSyndrome AchievesCredit: Cincinnati Children's FEB. 22, 2021 - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has collaborated ...
A novel gene discovery associated with a development disorder of pituitary origin
Credit: Noora Kaikkonen The pituitary gland is a pea-sized endocrine gland composed of two structurally and functionally separate parts known ...
Researchers demonstrate new method to track genetic diversity of salmon, trout
Credit: Loretta Ellenburg, USFS PNW Research Station. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists at Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service ...
Advancing understanding of hop genome to aid brewers, medical researchers
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University and U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers have significantly expanded the ...
Colorful connection found in coral’s ability to survive higher temperatures
Credit: Daisuke Kezuka. Coral within the family Acropora are fast growers and thus important for reef growth, island formation, and ...
