NEI researchers link age-related DNA modifications to susceptibility to eye disease
Findings point to targeting epigenome as a potential therapeutic strategyCredit: NIH Common Fund, adapted from National Eye Institute (NEI) researchers ...
Tag: Genetics
New insight into how a genetic change increases the risk of schizophrenia
Credit: Lancaster University A genetic change increases the risk of developing schizophrenia and highlights new opportunities for drug treatment say ...
What’s old is new again
Researchers repurpose classic chemotherapy drug to overcome cancer therapy resistanceCredit: Image/Art credit: Mark Miller, Stowers Institute KANSAS CITY, MO--Drug resistance ...
Researchers delay onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in laboratory models
Credit: Courtesy of University of Toronto TORONTO, ON - A team of researchers led by scientists at the University of ...
$3 million NSF grant supports search for heat-tolerant tomatoes
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett When your tomato plants won't bear fruit during the dog days of summer, a team ...
University of Utah Invests $1.3 million in COVID-19 research, from domestic violence
Credit: Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash (Salt Lake City) - As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe, ...
Diagnostic biosensor quickly detects SARS-CoV-2 from nasopharyngeal swabs
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c02823 According to many experts, early diagnosis and management are critical for slowing ...
EMBL-EBI launches COVID-19 data portal
EMBL-EBI and partners launch the COVID-19 data portal to help scientists, public health and healthcare professionals tackle the coronavirus pandemicCredit: ...
Finding leukemia’s weakness using genome-wide CRISPR technology
Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences A team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and ...
Promiscuity in the Paleozoic: Researchers uncover clues about vertebrate evolution
Credit: OIST To look at how life evolved, scientists usually turn to the fossil record, but this record is often ...
Picking up threads of cotton genomics
Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineagesCredit: Cotton Inc. Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is ...
IKBFU and Chinese scientists invented a new way of creating meat analogs
Worldwide focus meat analogs keeps increasing to start producing vegetable protein non-cholesterol products containing essential amino acids.Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic ...
FAU scientists receive $1.7 million NIH grant for novel neuroinflammation study
Project will investigate critical links between neuroinflammation and psychopathologyCredit: Florida Atlantic University Anxiety, depression and cognitive decline are prominent psychopathologies ...
Neolithic genomes from modern-day Switzerland indicate parallel ancient societies
Genetic analysis of 96 ancient individuals traces the arrival and demographic structure of peoples with Steppe-related ancestry into late Neolithic, ...
CSIRO unlocks new way to understand evolving strains of SARS-CoV-2
Data visualization helping researchers 'see' mutating virus as the race for a vaccine continuesCredit: CSIRO Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national ...
Mysterious tuft cells found to play role in pancreatitis
Salk scientists find that specialized chemosensory cells form during pancreatitis in miceCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 17, 2020) Persistent inflammation ...
Cancer drug resistance study raises immune red flags
Inhibiting cancer drug resistance gene MDR1 may come at a cost to immune responseCredit: Scott Wiseman for Scripps Research JUPITER, ...
The origin of feces: coproID reliably predicts sources of ancient poop
New method of discerning sources of ancient feces makes this archaeological find far more informativeCredit: Jada Ko, courtesy of the ...
How did an ancient plant from Latin America become Asia’s second-most-important cash crop?
Valued at dining room tables and factory floors alike, cassava is worth about $10 billion in Asia. The continued growth ...
Whole genome sequencing reveals genetic structural secrets of schizophrenia
A study co-led by Jin Szatkiewicz, PhD, Patrick Sullivan, MD, and colleagues at UNC-Chapel Hill and four Swedish universities found ...
