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Research Proposes a Totally New Way to Think About Agriculture

On November 15, 2022, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. With concerns about food security on the rise, experts are asking: how will we feed everyone? Climate change, natural resource depletion, soil erosion, and fossil fuel use in farming make the task even more challenging. We need to do something differently, but what?

13 Apr 2023

Comparison of De Novo Proteins and Computer-Generated Proteins

Proteins are components of every cell. How they have changed in the course of evolution for the purpose of taking on new functions in the body, has long been a subject of research.

13 Apr 2023

Exceptional Number of Unknown Viruses Found in the Infants' Feces

Viruses are usually associated with illness. But our bodies are full of both bacteria and viruses that constantly proliferate and interact with each other in our gastrointestinal tract.

12 Apr 2023

New Technique Identifies a Gene that Drives Clonal Expansion of Abnormal Cells

An international coalition of biomedical researchers co-led by Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has determined a new way to measure the growth rate of precancerous clones of blood stem cells that one day could help doctors lower their patients' risk of blood cancer.

12 Apr 2023

Optimized Genome-Editing Method Vastly Reduces Mutations

CRISPR-Cas9 is frequently used to alter the genome by researching and editing disease-related genes. However, this approach is coupled with undesirable side effects including mutations and toxicity.

11 Apr 2023

The Modified Development Potential of Worm Embryonic Cells

A startling discovery that challenges the conventional wisdom that the majority of the hereditary information for cell differentiation is encoded within DNA and other genetic factors has been made regarding how specific proteins within the chromosomes of roundworms facilitate their offspring to develop specialized cells generations later.

10 Apr 2023

Strawberry Inflorescence Research Provides Tools for Genomics-Based Plant Breeding

Researchers from the University of Helsinki, in collaboration with their Canadian colleagues, have demonstrated how strawberry inflorescence development is dictated by the small growing points, called meristems.

7 Apr 2023

Novel Protein Involved in Tumor Suppression Identified

Understanding how cancer develops is critical for designing effective, personalized cancer therapies. Researchers have known for years that cancer begins with mutations in certain types of genes.

7 Apr 2023

Attacking the HTLV-1 Virus With the Help of Special Gene Scissors

HTLV-1 triggers aggressive forms of leukemia or an incurable spinal cord disease that leads to paralysis: the virus is the often ignored but no less insidious sibling of the HIV virus that causes AIDS and also belongs to the family of retroviruses.

6 Apr 2023

Researchers Chart the First "Map of the Microverse"

What defines the habitat – the ecological niche – of a microorganism? It is a combination of environmental factors such as temperature, moisture, and nutrient content. But the exact contribution of each of these factors is difficult to predict.

6 Apr 2023

Poor Sleep Combined With High Genetic Susceptibility Results in Greater Asthma Risk

Poor quality sleep may bolster a person's genetic susceptibility to asthma, potentially doubling their risk of being diagnosed with the condition, suggests a large UK Biobank study, published in the open access journal BMJ Open Respiratory Research.

6 Apr 2023

Danforth Center’s New Semi-Dwarf Teff Cleared by USDA

A pre-market regulatory status review conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has concluded that teff modified by genome editing to have a semi-dwarf stature is not subject to biotechnology regulation under USDA's SECURE Rule.

5 Apr 2023

SoyOmics: An Innovative Framework of Multi-omics Database for Soybean

A major source of plant oil and protein for humans is the soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.), a crop cultivated all over the globe. The main objective for geneticists and breeders is to increase soybean production and quality.

5 Apr 2023

Customized AI-driven gut microbiome study to classify colorectal cancer

A diverse community of several bacterial species that are crucial to human health constitute the gut microbiome. Changes in the gut microbiota have been linked to a range of diseases recently, most notably colorectal cancer (CRC), according to researchers across a variety of domains.

5 Apr 2023

Revealing how cohesin attaches to the DNA and forms loops

Ana Losada, a scientist at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and then at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, identified cohesin, a protein essential to the process of cell division, in Xenopus frogs at the end of the 1990s.

5 Apr 2023

Novel Genes Could Serve as Predictive Biomarkers for PARP Inhibitor Response in Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer tumors harboring BRCA1/2 mutations are exceptionally sensitive to PARP inhibitors, while genomic alterations in other DNA damage response (DDR) genes are less responsive.

5 Apr 2023

Study Offers New Insight into Genetic Factors Behind Premature Delivery and Gestational Duration

New knowledge of the genetic factors behind premature delivery and gestational duration has now emerged.

4 Apr 2023

Jumping Genes in Various Cancers may be Used to Direct Novel Immunotherapies to Tumors

New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that transposable elements in various cancers potentially may be used to harness novel immunotherapies against tumors that don't typically respond to immune-based treatments. Shown is a 3D rendering of cancer cells.

4 Apr 2023

New Resource Provides a Better Annotation of the Genome and Understanding of Variant Impact

Each person has about 4 million sequence differences in their genome relative to the reference human genome.

4 Apr 2023

New cold "coping" mechanism of plants could offer solutions to breeding more climate resilient crops

On bright chilly mornings you can either snuggle down under the duvet or leap up and seize the day.

31 Mar 2023

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Research Proposes a Totally New Way to Think About Agriculture

Comparison of De Novo Proteins and Computer-Generated Proteins

Exceptional Number of Unknown Viruses Found in the Infants' Feces

New Technique Identifies a Gene that Drives Clonal Expansion of Abnormal Cells

Optimized Genome-Editing Method Vastly Reduces Mutations

The Modified Development Potential of Worm Embryonic Cells

Strawberry Inflorescence Research Provides Tools for Genomics-Based Plant Breeding

Novel Protein Involved in Tumor Suppression Identified

Attacking the HTLV-1 Virus With the Help of Special Gene Scissors

Researchers Chart the First "Map of the Microverse"

Poor Sleep Combined With High Genetic Susceptibility Results in Greater Asthma Risk

Danforth Center’s New Semi-Dwarf Teff Cleared by USDA

SoyOmics: An Innovative Framework of Multi-omics Database for Soybean

Customized AI-driven gut microbiome study to classify colorectal cancer

Revealing how cohesin attaches to the DNA and forms loops

Novel Genes Could Serve as Predictive Biomarkers for PARP Inhibitor Response in Prostate Cancer

Study Offers New Insight into Genetic Factors Behind Premature Delivery and Gestational Duration

Jumping Genes in Various Cancers may be Used to Direct Novel Immunotherapies to Tumors

New Resource Provides a Better Annotation of the Genome and Understanding of Variant Impact

New cold "coping" mechanism of plants could offer solutions to breeding more climate resilient crops

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