Tag: Genetics

Credit: Associate Professor Shinjiro Hino A research collaboration based in Kumamoto University (Japan) has shown that lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), ...

Credit: Unsplash A state-of-the-art genetic biobank could hold the key to preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), potentially saving the ...

Neurotransmitter shown to be a key driver in sensory processingCredit: UMass Amherst Neuroscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have ...

Studies using human cell lines and tumors grown in mice provide early evidence that inhibiting RNA-binding proteins, a previously overlooked ...

Climate change leads to increasing heat strain for humans, animals and cropsCredit: U. Benz / TUM "We have studied which ...

Dysfunction in key gene causes neural stem cells to produce more astrocytes than neuronsCredit: Kyushu University/Nakashima Lab Fukuoka, Japan--Medical researchers ...

Credit: John Innes Centre Hereditary information is passed from parent to offspring in the genetic code, DNA, and epigenetically through ...

Credit: Matthew R. Nitschke UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In the late 1800s, scientists were stumped by the "yellow cells" they ...

Genetic technique edits every chloroplast in a plant, but does not change nuclear DNA of offspringCredit: Image by Hiroko Uchida ...

Salk scientists find that canopy shade from competing plants triggers cellular changes in as little as five minutesCredit: Chan Yul ...

Loss of function of the C9orf72 gene may affect communication between neurons and muscles Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks ...

National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (NCRAD) located at IU School of Medicine has been continuously funded ...

Scientists have discovered how plants manage to live alongside each other in places that are dark and shady. Moderate shade ...

AMES, Iowa - So many microbes live in and on your body that it might be helpful to think of ...

Populations of Drosophila suzukii fruit flies - so-called "spotted-wing Drosophila" that devastate soft-skinned fruit in North America, Europe and parts ...

Rice method cuts indexing times from weeks to hours, search times from hours to minutes HOUSTON - (June 28, 2021) ...

Findings show how using genetic data could reduce a racial health disparity A gene variant that lowers white blood cell ...

New technology designed to breed more robust crops to improve agricultural yield and resist the effects of climate change With ...

Safe and localized delivery of nanoparticle-based anti-inflammatory cytokines programs a specific T cell response that strengthens muscles affected by Duchenne ...

A joint research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...