Tag: Genetics

Credit: © City University of Hong Kong / Science Advances Human stem cells have been regarded as one of the ...

Triple-threat genetic toolkit aids with eco-friendly chemical production

CABBI researchers have developed three innovative tools to facilitate production of high-value compounds from yeast strain Issatchenkia orientalisCredit: Center for ...

Copper boosts pig growth, and now we know why

Credit: University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA, Ill. - Pigs have better feed conversion rates ...

Scientists identify gene that first slows, then accelerates, progression of ALS in mice

Columbia study underscores complexities of deadly neurodegenerative disease; offers promising strategies to target disease's underlying genetic mechanismsCredit: Valeria Gerbino/Maniatis lab/Columbia's ...

Experimental medication to prevent heart disease may treat chemo-resistant ovarian cancer

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Most ovarian cancer starts in fallopian tubes. Then it sloughs from its site of ...

New therapeutic strategy against diabetes

Maintaining vitamin D receptor levels in insulin-producing cells could protect against diabetesCredit: CBATEG-UAB Maintaining vitamin D receptor (VDR) levels in ...

The genetic quest to understand COVID-19

Unlocking the genetic code of the novel coronavirus will help us prevent other diseasesCredit: University of Sydney How the novel ...

Jumping genes help make neurons in a dish

Celebrating our genomic diversity: Fine-scale differences in the Japanese population

Researchers led by Osaka University use dimensionality reduction analyses to identify fine-scale differences in the Japanese population, revealing greater population ...

Edmonton company Entos developing DNA vaccine against COVID-19

University of Alberta cancer researcher John Lewis's health-care biotechnology company is working on a vaccine to be delivered directly into ...

Computational human cell reveals new insight on genetic information processing

Credit: Graphic courtesy Zhaleh Ghaemi CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers have developed the first computational model of a human cell and ...

Here be dragons: Analysis reveals new species in Smaug lizard group

Credit: Edward Stanley GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Smaug, the deadly dragon in J.R.R Tolkien's "The Hobbit," has a few living relatives. ...

Patients with severe forms of coronavirus disease could offer clues to treatment

Credit: NIAID-RML Hundreds of clinicians worldwide are banding together in an effort to study some types of severe cases of ...

The YAP signal plays a crucial role in head-and-neck cancer onset

Creation of world's fastest cancer onset mouse modelCredit: Kobe University Joint research between Kobe University and National Hospital Organization Kyushu ...

A genetic nano-toolkit for the generation of new biomaterials

Bayreuth microbiologists use bacteria to produce multifunctional magnetic nanoparticlesCredit: Image: Frank Mickoleit / Clarissa Lanzloth. Magnetic bacteria might soon be ...

Teeth serve as ‘archive of life,’ new research finds

Findings have implications for studying evolution of menopause, birth patterns, and offspring rearing of earlier humansCredit: Image courtesy of Paola ...

Mapping the cannabis genome to improve crops and health

Credit: David Stobbe for University of Saskatchewan Unlocking the full potential of cannabis for agriculture and human health will require ...

A study investigating genetic mechanisms underlying resistance to leishmaniasis

March 24, 2020

The study was conducted in Brazil and mapped the genes that are activated when mice resistant to Leishmania are infected. ...

Images reveal how bacteria form communities on the human tongue

March 24, 2020

Credit: Steven Wilbert and Gary Borisy, The Forsyth Institute Using a recently developed fluorescent imaging technique, researchers in the United ...

A molecule that directs neurons