Tag: Genetics

Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State Two factors that control the expression of a key gene required by luminescent bacteria to ...

The complex biology behind your love (or hatred) of coffee

A Berkeley Lab scientist used statistics to tease out how genetics and environment interact to shape coffee consumptionCredit: Julius Schorzman/Wikimedia ...

Biomarker in saliva predicts childhood obesity risk

Credit: Photo by John Russell A molecular marker in saliva is associated with the emergence of childhood obesity in a ...

Unwanted behaviour in dogs is common, with great variance between breeds

Credit: Marta Reinartz/Pixabay All dog breeds have unwanted behaviour, such as noise sensitivity, aggressiveness and separation anxiety, but differences in ...

Food scientists slice time off salmonella identification process

Credit: Mars Global Food Safety Center ITHACA, N.Y. - Researchers from Cornell University, the Mars Global Food Safety Center in ...

The search for a biological link between reactivated HSV and neurological disease

Study finds HSV reactivation kills neurons and antivirals can stop itCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Without even knowing it, most ...

City fox and country fox

Genetics reveal behavioural and physical barriers between urban and rural red foxes in and around BerlinCredit: Jon Andoni Juarez Garcia ...

New software tool fosters quality control of genome-scale models of metabolism

Credit: Nikolaus Sonnenschein The application areas of genome-scale metabolic models are widespread, ranging from designing cell factories, investigating cancer metabolism, ...

First-ever CRISPR gene editing within human body done at OHSU

BRILLIANCE clinical trial aims to enable sight in people born with a blindness-causing mutationCredit: Oregon Health & Science University The ...

Novel compound sparks new malaria treatment hope

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A novel class of antimalarial compounds that can effectively kill malaria parasites has been ...

New model shows winners, losers among marine microbes in warming oceans

A USC-led research team developed a new tool to show how rising ocean temperatures help and hurt various marine microbesCredit: ...

Rapid DNA test quickly identifies victims of mass casualty event

Credit: Butte County Sheriff's Office To quickly identify victims of the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California's history, ...

Two complete genome sequence for coronavirus in Brazil were published

With FAPESP's support, researchers at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, Adolfo Lutz Institute and Oxford University in the ...

New Cas9 variant makes genome editing even more precise

Researchers develop more specific CRISPR-Cas9 gene scissorsCredit: Bratovic et al., 2020 CRISPR-Cas9 has revolutionized the field of genetics by its ...

Nature Gene Therapy publishes preclinical data of Ocugen’s OCU400 genetic modifier

Data support nuclear hormone receptor gene NR2E3 as genetic modifier and therapeutic agent to treat multiple retinal degenerative diseases and ...

Red panda population genomics confirms two phylogenetic species and different evolutionary histories

Credit: IOZ The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is an endangered mammal endemic to the Himalaya and Hengduan Mountains, and its ...

The CNIO discovers that rapamycin has harmful effects when telomeres are short

The finding helps to better understand diseases such as aplastic anemia and pulmonary fibrosisCredit: CNIO In the past few decades, ...

The microbes in your mouth, and a reminder to floss and go to the dentist

March 2, 2020

Oral microbiome was subject of crowd-sourced study by CSU, Denver museumCredit: Denver Museum of Nature & Science Most people know ...

Andrew Butler receives prestigious Weintraub Award for outstanding graduate research

March 2, 2020

Credit: New York Genome Center NEW YORK, NY (March 2, 2020) - Andrew Butler, a PhD student at New York ...

5,000-year-old milk proteins point to the importance of dairying in eastern Eurasia