Tag: Genetics

Giant viruses, like the recently discovered medusavirus, may hold the key to deciphering the evolutionary mystery of the eukaryotic nucleusCredit: ...

Credit: Nima Rafati. The evolution of sex chromosomes is of crucial importance in biology as it stabilises the mechanism underlying ...

Support from a second National Science Foundation grant will train next generation of scientists to find cures and therapies for ...

Credit: CNIO The KRAS oncogene is involved in at least one fifth of all human cancers: KRAS mutations are directly ...

Wild relatives of our domestic crops already cope with harsh conditions and resist disease; can we use them to help ...

Credit: Daria Artamonova et al./Nucleic Acids Research Researchers from the Severinov Lab at Skoltech have looked at how a poorly ...

Credit: Graphic: Kenji Fukushima / University of Wuerzburg Vertebrate organs organize physiological activities, and the diverse expression patterns of thousands ...

An 80,000-year-old Neanderthal reveals cultural and genetic affinities between Poland and the Northern CaucasusCredit: Marcin ?arski Around 100,000 years ago, ...

Scientists are learning about species adaptation by comparing their stem cell-related genesCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto University iCeMS The genes regulating pluripotent ...

Salk study is the first to reveal ways cells from the human circulatory system change with age and age-related diseasesCredit: ...

Study says endogenous retroviruses help promote genetic diversity and speciationCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - As the world scrambles to control ...

Credit: Felix Petermann, MDC Hundreds of innovators, research pioneers, clinicians, industry leaders and policy makers from all around Europe are ...

Credit: Dr Jie Zheng An innovative genetic study of blood protein levels, led by researchers in the MRC Integrative Epidemiology ...

Organoid-related discovery may also help drug makers screen potential pharmaceuticalsCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI--Scientists who were working on a way to ...

ERC Starting Grants for Professor Dr Martina Hofmanová and Dr Toni GoßmannCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University /S. Jonek The European Research ...

According to the first research study addressing evolutionary rates of larval and adult life stages at a large scale, the ...

The newly discovered sex determination mechanism may lead to improved fish farming techniquesHeat stress activates the PPARα signal in gonadal ...

This article by Dr. Mohanad Mohammed and colleagues is published in Current Bioinformatics, 2020Credit: Dr. Mohanad Mohammed et al., Bentham ...

Discovered in Val Aurina, South Tyrol (Italy) and now in the laboratory of Eurac Research's mummy experts, the remains will ...

Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Sept. 3, 2020 - Gene therapy generally relies on viruses, such as adeno-associated virus (AAV), ...