Tag: Genetics

March 2, 2020

Credit: Pierre-Marc Delaux For billions of years life on Earth was restricted to aquatic environments, the oceans, seas, rivers and ...

Male-killing bugs hold key to butterflies’ curious color changes

It is a spectacular butterfly breed with an intriguing back story ... now scientists have revealed how male-killing bacteria are ...

Genetic signature boosts protein production during cell division

Credit: Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum A research team has uncovered a genetic signature that enables cells to adapt their ...

The enemy within: How a killer hijacked one of nature’s oldest relationships

Credit: Henry Driver (commissioned by Essex County Council). Researchers have discovered how a notorious pathogen may have hijacked one of ...

Physics meets brain science in Denver

Presentations at the 2020 APS March Meeting will cover the effects of mammalian brain size on connectivity networks, where the ...

Advancing gene therapies: PIP pip hurray!

A new compound with the potential to turn genes on and off could lead to new cancer and hereditary disease ...

Deep-sea coral gardens discovered in the submarine canyons off south Western Australia

Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute Bremer Canyon Marine Park is already known as a biodiversity hotspot for marine species such as ...

How do zebrafish get their stripes? New data analysis tool could provide an answer

Credit: Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The iconic stripes of zebrafish are a classic example of natural self-organization. As zebrafish ...

Sugar-poor diets wreak havoc on bumblebee queens’ health

Study: Flower losses due to shrinking habitats and climate change hurt prime pollinatorsCredit: Jim Whitfield Without enough sugar in their ...

Genetic ‘fingerprints’ implicate gut bacterium in bowel cancer

Credit: Cayetano Pleguezuelos-Manzano, Jens Puschhof, Axel Rosendahl Huber, ©Hubrecht Institute. A common type of bacteria found in our guts could ...

Identifying pathogenic genes in virus strains at a glance

International project to help determine genetic abnormalitiesCredit: Bielefeld University/R. Wittler When new viruses or bacteria spread to humans, it is ...

Baldness gene discovery reveals origin of hairy alpine plants

Credit: Ying Tan Scientists have solved a puzzle that has long baffled botanists - why some plants on high mountainsides ...

How cardiorespiratory function is related to genetics

Credit: Lancaster University How high altitudes affect people's breathing and its coordination with the heart beat is due to genetic ...

A tadpole with a twist: Left-right asymmetric development of Oikopleura dioica

Researchers at Osaka University find that a tadpole-like tunicate with nonconventional left-right patterning lacks the Nodal gene found in other ...

New CRISPR base-editing technology slows ALS progression in mice

Credit: Image courtesy of Thomas Gaj, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- With a new CRISPR gene-editing methodology, scientists from ...

KAT6A syndrome: Advances on the genetic bases and clinical picture of a rare disease

Expanding the clinical phenotype of patientsCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA A research team has described five new cases of a rare ...

Each Mediterranean island has its own genetic pattern

Researchers reconstruct migration movements through ancient DNACredit: © David Caramelli The Mediterranean Sea has been a major route for maritime ...

Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center outlines centralized genetic testing model

A pioneer in the field, CHOP-based Center brings together researchers, physicians, and genetic counselors to help patients navigate the complexities ...

MicroRNA regulates process vital to placenta growth in early pregnancy

February 25, 2020

University of South Florida medical researchers applied CRISPR technology to study the function of a very large human non-protein coding ...

Scientists develop algorithm for researching evolution of species with WGD