Tag: Genetics

Credit: Professor Mark Schembri There is new hope for approximately 700,000 people who die each year from antibiotic resistant infections, ...

Discovery could lead to new screening tests and potential treatmentsCredit: Cincinnati Children's Two common variants in the KIF3A gene increase ...

Bishop Peder Winstrup of Lund, Sweden passed away in the winter of 1679 at the age of 74 and was ...

Findings have implications for seed production and crop yield and could help rewrite textbooks, translating to practical applications for plant ...

By tinkering with some of life's oldest components, a group of astrobiologists hopes to find clues about how life emerged. ...

Credit: Bowling et al, 2020 The larynx is larger, more variable in size, and has undergone faster rates of evolution ...

Credit: John Innes Centre Researchers have shed fresh light on the evolution and function of the shapes we see in ...

Credit: courtesy of Arron Carter A plant breeder's goal is to release cultivars that are commercially economical and environmentally sustainable. ...

Credit: Nicola Nelson AMES, Iowa - Scientists searching the most ancient corners of the genome of a reptile native to ...

Rice chemists expand genetic code of E. coli to produce 21st amino acid, giving it new abilitiesCredit: Xiao Lab/Rice University ...

Credit: IRB Barcelona The system that regulates cellular calcium levels duplicated, generating two non-equivalent systems, some one billion years ago ...

Credit: CNIO Ana Losada, from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), is the scientist who identified cohesin in vertebrates, ...

Inbreeding can reduce cooperation in banded mongooses according to a recent study by researchersCredit: Dr Hazel Nichols Inbreeding can reduce ...

Credit: CIB-CSIC A research team led by Daniel Lietha has just published in The EMBO Journal the mechanistic details of ...

This is the first comprehensive genomic study of cervical cancers in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on tumors from 212 ...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 10, 2020--Gene therapy to the inner retina prevented blindness in ...

$12.9 million in funding backs Center for Theoretical Biological Physics researchCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 10, 2020) - ...

Credit: Valentina Burskaia/Skoltech A group of scientists from Skoltech and the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS (IITP RAS) ...

Credit: Palsson Lab All life is subject to evolution in the form of mutations that change the DNA sequence of ...

First study to show taste bud cell immunity from contact with virus particleCredit: UGA A new study from the Regenerative ...