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Researchers determine a novel antiviral technique to combat bacteria

Bacteria use a wide range of defense strategies to combat viral infection, and some of these systems have resulted in game-changing technologies like CRISPR-based gene editing.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 15 Aug 2022

Parents transmit genetic and epigenetic information to their offspring

The knowledge of what can be inherited from parents and how their life experiences impact children could be completely rewritten if a fundamental finding concerning a factor driving healthy development in embryos were made.

From Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) 15 Aug 2022

Researchers modify the root structure of plants with synthetic genes

Crops need to be more adaptable than ever as extreme weather events like floods, droughts, and heat waves grow more frequently.

15 Aug 2022

Mount Sinai and Regeneron Genetics Center launch a large-scale genome sequencing project

Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have launched a new human genome sequencing research project called the Mount Sinai Million Health Discoveries Program with the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC), part of the industry-leading, New York-based biotechnology company Regeneron.

12 Aug 2022

Circadian clock impacts cell growth, metabolism, and tumor development

Scientists from the University of California, Irvine, have defined how the circadian clock impacts cell growth, metabolism, and tumor progression in a new study.

12 Aug 2022

Fabimycin likely to be an effective treatment for drug-resistant bacteria

Bacteria that cause urinary tract infections are getting more and more resistant to many medications, and they are becoming more and more difficult to cure.

12 Aug 2022

Genetic mapping helps to analyze how cancer cells grow

Acknowledging which cells lend credence to which regions of cancer can help us better understand how a tumor has expanded and developed over time, such as how it has altered genetically.

12 Aug 2022

Biotrophic fungus uses host auxin signaling pathway for its own purposes

Ustilago maydis attacks and reproduces in the aerial parts of the corn plant. At the location of the infection, massive tumor-like tissue growths frequently develop. The size of these galls can exceed that of a child’s skull.

12 Aug 2022

Self‑pollinating flowering plant quickly loses genetic variation without bumble bees

Without bumble bees, a flowering plant that can self-pollinate lost substantial genetic variation within only nine generations, an experimental study found.

11 Aug 2022

Interseeded cover crops provide nitrogen services in organic corn systems

Fields of amber grain may be the poetic image of American farmland. And it's true that the U.S. grows plenty of wheat. But fields of yellow grain – corn – may be more accurate.

11 Aug 2022

Researchers discover antibiotic resistance genes in M. tuberculosis

More than 10,000 different Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria isolated from 23 different countries were subjected to a thorough investigation, which uncovered new genes linked to resistance to 13 first- and second-line novel and repurposed medicines.

11 Aug 2022

Study provides guidelines on how to design safer CRISPR reagents

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing the widely utilized and incredibly precise genome editing method known as CRISPR/Cas9

11 Aug 2022

Cedars-Sinai builds bio-realistic and intricate computer models of brain cells

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai have produced an unprecedented number of bio-realistic and intricate computer models of individual brain cells.

11 Aug 2022

Banp indispensable for cell-cycle progression and cell survival

Zebrafish mutants were found by a team of researchers about 15 years ago. These zebrafish’s eyes did not mature properly, which explains why they are much smaller than the eyes of zebrafish found in the wild.

11 Aug 2022

Scientists incorporate the diel cycle into global ocean model to explore effects on phytoplankton

Phytoplankton is the foundation of all life on the planet. Understanding how these photosynthetic organisms react to their ocean environment is important to understanding the rest of the food web.

10 Aug 2022

Research reveals the secrets of photosynthesis in the shade

Plants and algae use green-tinted chlorophyll to convert high-energy sunlight into food via photosynthesis.

10 Aug 2022

Research shows higher concentrations of microbe-laden dust landing at lower elevations in Sierras

Dust from all over the world is landing in the Sierra Nevada mountains carrying microbes that are toxic to both plants and humans.

10 Aug 2022

UF scientists know why 'aromatic' blueberries taste good

They may be called "aromatic" blueberries, but they don't just smell nice -- they taste good.

9 Aug 2022

Circadian clocks involve primarily in fat cell growth

According to two studies conducted by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the circadian clocks that keep the body and its cells synchronized to the 24-hour day-night cycle are severely disrupted.

9 Aug 2022

AI tools forecast DNA’s regulatory region and 3D structure

According to two recent research published in Nature Genetics, recently created artificial intelligence (AI) tools effectively identified the function of DNA’s regulatory regions and three-dimensional (3D) structure based only on its raw sequence.

9 Aug 2022