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Horses' Unique Genetic Adaptation for Superior Endurance Revealed

Researchers have revealed a secret behind horses' exceptional endurance – a mutation in the KEAP1 gene that boosts energy production while protecting against cellular oxidative stress.

28 Mar 2025

New Discoveries Challenge Textbook Knowledge of Mitochondrial Respiration

In an article published in the journal Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Alicia Kowaltowski, full professor at the University of São Paulo's Institute of Chemistry (IQ-USP) in Brazil, advocates the "rewriting" of textbooks on the location of the electron transport chain in mitochondria and the role of sodium in mitochondrial respiration.

20 Feb 2025

The Role of DNA Repair Pathways in Antibody Somatic Hypermutation

In a recent online publication in SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences, researchers from the laboratory of Leng-Siew Yeap at the Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine published a review article entitled "Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Lesion and Repair During Antibody Somatic Hypermutation". This review comprehensively summarizes the mechanisms involved in the generation of antigen-specific diversified antibodies, with a particular focus on the mechanisms that generate high-frequency point mutations and low-frequency deletions and insertions (indels) in antibody genes.

22 Aug 2024

New CRISPR Method Allows Comprehensive Screening of Cancer Mutations

Tumors can carry mutations in hundreds of different genes, and each of those genes may be mutated in different ways -; some mutations simply replace one DNA nucleotide with another, while others insert or delete larger sections of DNA.

13 Mar 2024

New Research Sheds Light on Divergent Roles of Paralogous RNA Helicases

Genetic expression, often leading to protein synthesis, requires a complex coordination of molecular machinery across several stages.

9 Feb 2024

Study Offers Key Insights into the Structure of Neutral Mutations

An unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics has been disclosed by an interdisciplinary group of mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and medical scientists. This helps disclose deep knowledge of the structure of neutral mutations and also the evolution of organisms.

2 Aug 2023

Breakthrough "Gene Silencing" Technology Could Revolutionize the Development of DNAzymes

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine have developed a DNA enzyme – or DNAzyme – that can distinguish between two RNA strands inside a cell and cut the disease-associated strand while leaving the healthy strand intact.

9 May 2023

Effective backup mechanism ensures efficient antimicrobial responses in humans

In the human body, virus particles are identified by pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) either within or on the cell surface. When a receptor is activated, a signaling cascade is initiated, which results in the production and release of signaling molecules like interferons and cytokines.

14 Mar 2023

A 3D explanation of SPOP’s role in cancer

The protein SPOP, which also plays a role in endometrial, uterine, and other cancers, is the most mutated in prostate cancer. Despite its significance, it is still unclear how SPOP mutations cause cancer.

26 Jan 2023

Enzymes hold the answer to understanding how DNA mutates

According to recent research from the University of Surrey, enzymes, which are essential for regulating how cells replicate in the human body, could be the very component that encourages DNA to spontaneously mutate, leading to potentially permanent genetic errors.

From University of Surrey 17 Nov 2022

National DNA Day 2022: an interview with Professor Matthew Cobb

To celebrate National DNA Day 2022, we spoke to science communicator Professor Matthew Cobb.

From The University of Manchester 25 Apr 2022

Services to accelerate genome editing research

AMSBIO has expanded its range of custom gene editing services to complement its extensive portfolio of off-the-shelf CRISPR/Cas9 products.

From AMS Biotechnology 17 Dec 2021

Scientists discover new genetic link to non-alcoholic inflammatory liver disease

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the accumulation of fat in the liver unrelated to alcohol abuse or other liver diseases.

11 Nov 2021

Study adds two new genetic variants to the list of glutamate receptor mutations

Researchers from Northwestern Medicine distinguished different variants of the gene GRIK2 that induces nonsyndromic neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD).

27 Sep 2021

New technique to hunt down mutations that cause cancer drug resistance

Using a virus to purposely mutate genes that produce cancer-driving proteins could shed light on the resistance that inevitably develops to cancer drugs that target them, a new study led by UT Southwestern scientists suggests.

11 Aug 2021

Research reveals fundamental insights into the causes of severe birth defects

Research by Kai Jiao, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and in Germany has yielded fundamental insights into the causes of severe birth defects known as CHARGE syndrome cases. These congenital birth defects include severe and life-threatening heart malformations.

3 Dec 2020

Common bread fungus mutates its own DNA to fight virus-like infections

Organisms attempt to halt their DNA from mutating, but researchers have discovered that a common fungus mutates its own DNA as a means to fight infections.

23 Jun 2020