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A gene is a unit of heredity in a living organism. It normally resides on a stretch of DNA that codes for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. All living things depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains.

Study Reveals Immune Factors Behind COVID-19 Resistance in Some Individuals

As part of the first-ever COVID-19 human challenge study, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University College London (UCL), Imperial College London, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, and their collaborators examined immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthy adult volunteers using single-cell sequencing.

20 Jun 2024

Tabulae Paralytica: Mapping Cellular Dynamics in Spinal Cord Injuries

Scientists at EPFL have achieved a significant research milestone in the field of spinal cord injuries-;mapping out the cellular and molecular dynamics of paralysis in unprecedented detail with their open-source project 'Tabulae Paralytica'.

20 Jun 2024

Scientists Discover Impact of Mycoviral Infection on Fungicide Sensitivity in Oomycete Pathogens

As detrimental as viruses may sound, they can be helping hands for farmers when it comes to dealing with plant pathogens.

20 Jun 2024

Genetic Insights into Coffee Consumption and Health Implications

Coffee drinking is a heritable habit, and one that carries a certain amount of genetic baggage.

20 Jun 2024

New Gene Drive System Offers Hope for Sustainable Agriculture

The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University, along with Wenfeng Qian from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), have collaborated to create a plant gene drive system known as CRISPR-Assisted Inheritance utilizing NPG1 (CAIN).

18 Jun 2024

Open-Access Atlas Maps Roundworm Aging at Single-Cell Resolution

A new aging atlas provides scientists with a detailed view of how individual cells and tissues in worms age, and how various lifespan-extending strategies might halt the aging process.

18 Jun 2024

Ancestry Bias can Cause CRISPR Screens to Miss Cancer Dependencies

CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing has made possible a multitude of biomedical experiments including studies that systematically turn off genes in cancer cells to look for ones that the cancer cells heavily depend on to survive and grow.

17 Jun 2024

New Clinical Trial Offers Path to Sickle Cell Cure

The most recent results from a clinical trial were given by researchers in an effort to find a cure for sickle cell disease, a painful genetic blood illness that has few available treatments.

17 Jun 2024

Stem cell-based kidney chip revolutionizes disease modeling and research

An organ-on-chip system containing a kidney glomerulus using human-induced pluripotent stem cells and an ultrathin membrane.

17 Jun 2024

Gene Editing Yields New Insights into Tardigrade Resilience

Some species of tardigrades are highly and unusually resilient to various extreme conditions fatal to most other forms of life.

14 Jun 2024

Study Uncovers Link Between Genetic Variants and Mosaic Loss of X Chromosome in Aging Women

Researchers have identified inherited genetic variants that may predict the loss of one copy of a woman's two X chromosomes as she ages, a phenomenon known as mosaic loss of chromosome X, or mLOX.

13 Jun 2024

Human Antibodies Offer Hope for Improved Black Widow Antivenom

Sera produced from horses can be used to treat serious illnesses caused by black widow bites. But this approach is not totally secure. To address this, scientists have produced entirely human antibodies that are capable of neutralizing the European black widow's alpha-latrotoxin.

13 Jun 2024