Tag: Genetics

March 11, 2021

Credit: Carsten A. Skjøth Grass pollen is a major outdoor allergen, responsible for widespread and costly respiratory conditions including allergic ...

Nano-micelle packaging CRISPR/Cas9 components enables brain genome editing

March 11, 2021

Credit: 2021 Innovation Center of NanoMedicine March 10, 2021 - Kawasaki, Japan: The research group of Deputy Principal Research Scientist ...

Forget the fly swatter: Biologists map genes to fight stable flies

Stable flies cause $2B in agriculture losses each year -- and they're so annoyingCredit: Pia Untalan Olafson Researchers hope to ...

TGen seeks help from Arizona dog and cat owners for COVID-19 study

Project builds on 'One Health' testing and disease surveillance collaborations in ArizonaCredit: Photo: Courtesy of TGen. PHOENIX, Ariz. -- March ...

Demystifying the ‘Parkinson Protein’

Research team led by the physical chemist Professor Malte Drescher from Konstanz succeeds in directly observing the membrane binding of ...

A CNIO team discovers how telomere involvement in tumor generation is regulated

The results show for the first time that telomeres respond to external signals that induce cell proliferation and that blocking ...

The 3Rs of the genome: Reading, writing, and regulating

A new map of protein binding locations in yeast advances understanding of gene regulationCredit: Pugh Lab, Cornell and Mahony Lab, ...

Salk Professor Wolfgang Busch named first incumbent of the Hess Chair in Plant Science

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(March 9, 2021) Salk Professor Wolfgang Busch has been recognized for his contributions and dedication to ...

How the South African COVID-19 variant was found

UC Riverside biomedical scientists were part of an international team that identified the coronavirus strainCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, ...

A new co-driver in breast cancer

UC researchers discover how two genes cooperate to cause cancer growth and can target treatments to stop it from happeningCredit: ...

Princeton team discovers new organelle involved in cancer metastasis

Princeton cancer researchers discover link between liquid-liquid phase separations and cancer pathologyCredit: Image rendering by Mark Esposito and Gary Laevsky ...

Gene discovery may help peaches tolerate climate stress

Researchers have identified genes in peach's wild relatives and local domesticated varieties that could improve the resistance of domesticated peach ...

Amyloid plaque mutation map opens new avenues for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease

Credit: The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, IBEC A study published in the journal eLife made all the possible mutations ...

Pungent-variable of sweet chili pepper Shishito: genes and seeds