‘We urgently need a renewed public debate about new breeding technologies’
Göttingen agricultural economist evaluates research results on food securityCredit: S Koppmair Plant breeding has considerably increased agricultural yields in recent ...
Tag: Genetics
What’s the best way to identify male hemp seedlings?
More accurate sex determination could increase yields and lower price of CBDCredit: Allison Nalesnik, Salisbury University Bethesda, MD - The ...
Help your children learn about biology with a bedtime story
New children's story book about geneticsCredit: Dr. Tiffany Taylor/James Munro How do you explain genes and genetics to a six ...
Rice wins fed grant to advance sickle cell disease therapy
Bioengineer Gang Bao studies genome-editing outcomes to enable a future clinical trialCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (April 24, 2020) ...
Diverse livelihoods helped resilient Levänluhta people survive a climate disaster
Credit: Anna Wessman A multidisciplinary research group coordinated by the University of Helsinki dated the bones of dozens of Iron ...
Sanfilippo C syndrome: New brain cell models to evaluate therapies
Fighting degenerative diseasesCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA - CIBERER The Sanfilippo syndrome type C is a severe neurodegenerative disease which appearws ...
Syphilis eludes immune attack by altering a single gene
By shuffling DNA in and out of one gene, syphilis stays a step ahead of the immune system to resist ...
A cellular mechanism protecting against cancer
Bayreuth geneticists discover a mechanism that leads to the programmed death of potentially diseased cellsCredit: Image: Olaf Stemmann. Susanne Hellmuth ...
Gene-editing protocol for whitefly pest opens door to control
Credit: Jason Rasgon, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Whiteflies are among the most important agricultural pests in the world, ...
Icelandic DNA jigsaw-puzzle brings new knowledge about Neanderthals
An international team of researchers has put together a new image of Neanderthals based on the genes Neanderthals left in ...
Coronaviruses and bats have been evolving together for millions of years
Different groups of bats have their own unique strains of coronavirusCredit: Olivà S. Noroalintseheno Lalarivoniaina Bats do a lot of ...
University of Guelph develops effective way to replenish threatened plants
University of Guelph researchers used advanced cloning techniques to give the threatened Hill's thistle a fighting chance.Credit: University of Guelph ...
New bat species discovered — cousins of the ones suspected in COVID-19
Credit: B.D. Patterson, Field Museum Bats play a huge but poorly understood role in humans' lives--they pollinate our crops, eat ...
Scientists reveal how tuberculosis bacteria import vitamin B12 to grow
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers from Russia, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the U.S. have revealed the structure of the ...
Finding genetic ripple effects in a single-cell environment
Scientists discover way to link gene mutations to disease-causing processesCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Although advances in genetics and genomics ...
Novel research on African bats pilots new ways in sharing and linking published data
Credit: B. D. Patterson / Field Museum Newly published findings about the phylogenetics and systematics of some previously known, but ...
New study reveals life’s earliest evolution was more complicated than previously suspected
Credit: Credit: S. Shiobara, S. McGlynn, ELSI, CC BY 4.0 Biologists have long hoped to understand the nature of the ...
Gene signature found for poor response to standard chemotherapy in rare uterine cancer
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Women who don't survive a rare and aggressive uterine cancer called uterine serous ...
Researchers identify link between obesity and sleep loss in worms
Energy conservation may be a major function of sleep, according to new studyCredit: University of Nevada, Reno Can staying up ...
HudsonAlpha plant genomics researchers surprised by cotton genome
New reference-grade assemblies published in Nature GeneticsCredit: HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology April 20, 2020 (Huntsville, Ala.) - Plant genomics researchers ...
