NUI Galway contribute to significant breast cancer risk genes study
NUI Galway breast cancer specialists contribute to international study on the identification of nine breast cancer risk genesCredit: NUI Galway ...
Tag: Genetics
Early breeding reduced harmful mutations in sorghum
Credit: Nadia Shakoor ITHACA, N.Y. - When humans first domesticated maize some 9,000 years ago, those early breeding efforts led ...
European eels – one gene pool fits all
Credit: Anders Asp, SLU European eels spawn in the subtropical Sargasso Sea but spend most of their adult life in ...
On the trail of active ingredients from marine yeasts
Red yeast from deep-sea sediment shows anticancer and antibacterial propertiesCredit: L. Büdenbender, GEOMAR. 20 January 2021/Kiel. Numerous natural products are ...
Antibiotic resistance may spread even more easily than expected
Credit: Jan Zrimec/Chalmers University of Technology Pathogenic bacteria in humans are developing resistance to antibiotics much faster than expected. Now, ...
NIH researchers identify new genetic disorder that affects brain, craniofacial skeleton
Analysis of patients with rare condition uncovers key pathway for human developmentCredit: Werner lab, NIDCR Researchers at the National Institutes ...
Genetic rewiring behind spectacular evolutionary explosion in East Africa
Credit: Dr Graham Etherington and Dr Tarang Mehta, Earlham Institue (EI) Genetic rewiring could have driven an evolutionary explosion in ...
ALS study reveals a unique population
Scientists discover that ALS patients in Malta do not have flaws in major ALS genesCredit: Source: Jonathan Borg, Times of ...
Benvitimod cream: a new topical treatment for plaque psoriasis
New non-steroidal topical drug benvitimod proven to be safe and effective for plaque psoriasis in a phase III clinical trial ...
How dietary choice influences lifespan in fruit flies
Giving flies a choice of foods changes the chemical messaging in their brain that is responsible for coordinating metabolism, shortening ...
Fishing out the bad apples: Novel quantitative method to assess the safety of food
Scientists from Korea develop an effective yet simple strategy to quantify histamine levels in fish samplesCredit: Unsplash Consumers of purchased ...
New approach emerges to better classify, treat brain tumors
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 19, 2021) - A look at RNA tells us what our ...
Lasers & molecular tethers create perfectly patterned platforms for tissue engineering
Credit: Batalov et al., PNAS, 2021 Imagine going to a surgeon to have a diseased or injured organ switched out ...
New computational tool reliably differentiates between cancer and normal cells from single-cell RNA-sequencing data
CopyKAT enables researchers to gain new insights when analyzing solid tumor samplesCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON — In an ...
Simulating evolution to understand a hidden switch
Credit: © 2021 KAUST; Anastasia Serin Computer simulations of cells evolving over tens of thousands of generations reveal why some ...
Filling a crucial gap in aquafarming: ion beam breeding to the rescue
Credit: RIKEN A research team led by scientists at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (RNC) has successfully created ...
Guppies have varying levels of self-control
Credit: University of Exeter Just like humans trying to stick to New Year's resolutions, guppies have varying levels of self-control, ...
Rare lichen unique to Florida discovered in museum collections, may be extinct
Credit: Robert Lücking GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Scientists have found a new species of fleshy verdigris lichen, thanks to DNA analysis ...
Reverse engineering 3D chromosome models for individual cells
Distant genes can be neighborsCredit: UIC Genome analysis can provide information on genes and their location on a strand of ...
The regulatory network of sugar and organic acid in watermelon fruit is revealed
Credit: Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute Recently, the innovation project watermelon and melon cultivation and physiology team of Zhengzhou Fruit Research ...
