Tag: Genetics

Capability could accelerate the development of new treatments for diseasesCredit: Justin Muir Northwestern University synthetic biologist Joshua Leonard used to ...

Opening the black box to uncover the rules of the genome's regulatory codeCredit: Illustration courtesy of Mark Miller, Stowers Institute ...

Credit: Beth Luedeker Your morning cereal or oatmeal. The bread on your sandwich. The corn chips for your snack, and ...

New study reveals that selective breeding of male-sterile Japanese cedar trees using genetic screening can help reduce pollen load and ...

Tiger genomes reveal signatures of population bottlenecks, recent divergence between subspecies, local adaptation, and ongoing impacts of fragmentationCredit: Ranthambore Tiger ...

Credit: Pixabay / Ermal Tahiri Long black, espresso, or latte, whatever your coffee preference, drink too much and you could ...

Males with most impressive adornments have sperm that outcompetes rivals who mate firstCredit: Michal Polak/UC Scientists have accepted natural selection ...

Credit: University of Bath An international team of scientists has determined how harmless E. coli gut bacteria in chickens can ...

Macrophages that boost tumor growthCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Tumor cells are able to avoid the attack of the immune system ...

Research from scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital found mutations up to two years before cancer developed, showing an ...

Research offers new lead for cancer drug discoveryCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- An antioxidant found in green tea ...

A George Mason University and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey collaboration received the U.S. Army's Breast Cancer Research Program ...

Machine learning study initiated at the Wyss Institute in collaboration with Google Research enables unprecedented AAV capsid diversification with potential ...

Credit: Jim Greenfield The strange social structure of tiny fish called emerald coral gobies may be explained by family loyalty, ...

Credit: Chris Stringer Experts from the Natural History Museum, The Francis Crick Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the ...

Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI--Imagine a day when clinicians treating people with blood diseases such as leukemia or multiple myeloma can ...

Credit: S. Yamanaka Yams are a staple food in West Africa, which produces over 90% of the world's yams each ...

Coelacanths gained 62 new genes from traveling DNA that was passed on from other species, new research reveals in a ...

The evolution of red color vision in lycaenid butterflies linked to coordinated rhodopsin tuningCredit: Image copyright Nanfang Yu (Columbia University). ...

Genetic evolution doesn't always take millions of yearsCredit: Ian Davies, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Ithaca, NY--Love them or ...