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Exploring Carotenoid Diversity in Carrots Through Gene Editing

Carrots are rich in carotenoids, essential for human health, providing important compounds like vitamin A.

17 Nov 2025

Reviving Ancient DNA Techniques to Study Historical Disease Evolution

Research institutions around the world house valuable genetic information that could help unlock countless medical mysteries.

17 Nov 2025

Understanding Genetic Diversity Through Short Tandem Repeats

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have revealed a previously overlooked layer of genetic variation that could help explain why people experience disease differently, and why some treatments work better for certain populations.

17 Nov 2025

Breakthrough Microscope Enhances Detection Range for Cellular Observations

Researchers Kohki Horie, Keiichiro Toda, Takuma Nakamura, and Takuro Ideguchi of the University of Tokyo have built a microscope that can detect a signal over an intensity range fourteen times wider than conventional microscopes.

17 Nov 2025

Positioning Barbados as the Caribbean’s Life Sciences Hub

Export Barbados (BIDC) and EarlyHealth Group (EHG), have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly establish EarlyHealth City Barbados, a US$200 Million world-class pharmaceutical and life sciences cluster earmarked for Newton, Christ Church.

17 Nov 2025

RNA Imaging Predicts Early Cell Damage with High Sensitivity

NIMS, in collaboration with Nagoya University, Gifu University, and the University of Adelaide, has developed a method for simultaneously imaging DNA and RNA inside cells using harmless infrared to near-infrared light.

14 Nov 2025

Cellarity's AI Model Predicts Drug Induced Liver Injury

Cellarity, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing Cell State-Correcting therapies through integrated multi-omics and AI modeling, today announced the publication of a seminal manuscript in Nature Communications, which describes a novel framework for the prediction and characterization of drug-induced liver injury (DILI), along with open-source posting of the model and validation data.

14 Nov 2025

Studying Disease Evolution Through Ancient DNA Analysis

Research institutions around the world house valuable genetic information that could help unlock countless medical mysteries. However, because DNA degrades over time, it is difficult for researchers to analyze DNA samples older than 20 years using conventional analytical approaches.

14 Nov 2025

New Tool Studies Kinase Activity During DNA Damage

Cornell researchers have developed a powerful new biosensor that reveals, in unprecedented detail, how and where kinases – enzymes that control nearly all cellular processes – turn on and off inside living cells.

14 Nov 2025

FOXP3 Gene Regulation Holds Key to Immune Therapies

The immune system faces a delicate balancing act: it must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained enough to avoid attacking the body's own tissues.

14 Nov 2025

Evosep Unveils Open Innovation Initiative to Expand Standardization in Proteomics

Evosep, a global leader in proteomics solutions, is proud to announce a new initiative at HUPO 2025 aimed at solving one of LCMS based proteomics most persistent challenges: sample preparation.

14 Nov 2025

New "Ultra-Mild" Method Corrects Cancer DNA Methylation Test Errors

Traditional bisulfite sequencing damages DNA, while enzyme-based alternatives are inconsistent. A novel methylation analysis method, called UMBS-seq, was published this week in Nature Communications. UMBS-seq achieves both accuracy and gentleness, unlocking more reliable cancer biomarker detection.

13 Nov 2025

Plant Cell Duality: Balancing Adaptability in Skin Cells with Stability in Reproductive Cells

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals how plants control mutation rates in different stem cells to balance adaptability with safety and stability.

13 Nov 2025

Texas A&M Researchers Use AI to Identify a Genetic Time Capsule for Distinguishing Species

In a groundbreaking study, scientists from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have utilized cutting-edge artificial intelligence methods to identify a region of the X chromosome that has maintained the distinctiveness of mammal species for millions of years.

13 Nov 2025

Phage Engineering: Characterizing Bacteriophages for Medical and Agricultural Applications

From medicine to agriculture and aquaculture, bacteriophages are poised to have a huge global impact. As viruses which target only bacterial cells, they hold promise as an alternative to antibiotics, overcoming increasing issues around antibiotic resistance.

13 Nov 2025

New Aquatic Arthropod Model Emerges from Visualization of Endosymbiosis in Ostracods

Ostracods, sometimes called seed shrimp, are nearly microscopic, aquatic organisms, inhabiting all types of marine and freshwater environments.

13 Nov 2025

Animals Evolved Similar Genetic Tools to Conquer Land Across Distant Lineages

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life such as insects, worms and vertebrates independently evolved similar genetic solutions to survive on land, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Bristol and University of Barcelona.

13 Nov 2025

Research News and Research

Exploring Carotenoid Diversity in Carrots Through Gene Editing

Reviving Ancient DNA Techniques to Study Historical Disease Evolution

Understanding Genetic Diversity Through Short Tandem Repeats

Breakthrough Microscope Enhances Detection Range for Cellular Observations

Positioning Barbados as the Caribbean’s Life Sciences Hub

RNA Imaging Predicts Early Cell Damage with High Sensitivity

Cellarity's AI Model Predicts Drug Induced Liver Injury

Studying Disease Evolution Through Ancient DNA Analysis

New Tool Studies Kinase Activity During DNA Damage

FOXP3 Gene Regulation Holds Key to Immune Therapies

Evosep Unveils Open Innovation Initiative to Expand Standardization in Proteomics

New "Ultra-Mild" Method Corrects Cancer DNA Methylation Test Errors

Plant Cell Duality: Balancing Adaptability in Skin Cells with Stability in Reproductive Cells

Texas A&M Researchers Use AI to Identify a Genetic Time Capsule for Distinguishing Species

Phage Engineering: Characterizing Bacteriophages for Medical and Agricultural Applications

New Aquatic Arthropod Model Emerges from Visualization of Endosymbiosis in Ostracods

Animals Evolved Similar Genetic Tools to Conquer Land Across Distant Lineages

Bone Regeneration Breakthrough: Next-Gen Nanoparticle-Stem Cell Hybrids Show Promise

Animal Testing to Be Phased Out Faster as UK Unveils Roadmap for Alternative Methods

Brain Immune Cells Found to Act as Accelerators and Brakes for Anxiety

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