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 musclesCredit: Christian Fleury Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ...

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

Credit: Pexels Scientists have discovered how plants manage to live alongside each other in places that are dark and shady. ...

Credit: Iowa State University News Service AMES, Iowa - So many microbes live in and on your body that it ...

Credit: Photos by Akihiko Yamamoto and Amarish Yadav, NC State University. Populations of Drosophila suzukii fruit flies - so-called "spotted-wing ...

Rice method cuts indexing times from weeks to hours, search times from hours to minutesCredit: Courtesy G. Gupta/Rice University HOUSTON ...

Findings show how using genetic data could reduce a racial health disparityCredit: Erin O. Smith/VUMC A gene variant that lowers ...

New technology designed to breed more robust crops to improve agricultural yield and resist the effects of climate changeCredit: Zhao ...

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

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