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Bioinformatics is the application of information techniques for the storage, retrieval, and analysis of large quantities of biological data.

Effect of Glyphosate-Based Herbicide Residues on Endophytic Microbes

Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland conducted a field study in which they evaluated the effect of glyphosate residues in soil on the endophytic microbial communities of garden strawberries.

7 Apr 2023

Enhancing Cancer Modeling with New Genetic Analysis Tool

Healthy food and exercise habits can have a big impact on a person’s general health. However, an individual’s genetics largely determines their chance of developing cancer.

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

Experts Develop a New Mesoscopic Simulation Model of DNA Movement

The mesoscopic scale in physics and chemistry relates to the length scale on which the properties of a material or phenomenon can be researched without delving into the behaviour of individual atoms.

5 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

Study brings into sharper focus the structural details of SARS-COV-2 virus

A new study led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) brings into sharper focus the structural details of the COVID-19 virus, revealing an elliptical shape that "breathes," or changes shape, as it moves in the body.

31 Mar 2023

Meta-scale approach to quantifying the protein variants in the human body

A key conundrum in biology is why many very simple creatures, such as the widely studied worm C. elegans, have almost as many genes as the human genome, which has about 20,000 genes.

27 Mar 2023

Study identifies 238 amyloid toxicity protective or activator genes

An international study led by the Molecular Physiology Laboratory at the UPF Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) identifies new genes that modulate the toxicity of the protein β-amyloid, responsible for causing Alzheimer's disease.

22 Mar 2023

Study discovers the ability of certain blood immune cells to proliferate

The ability of a cell to divide, to proliferate, is essential for life and gives rise to the formation of complex organisms from a single cell.

20 Mar 2023

Novel web-based tool deoptimizes genetic sequences based on different codon usage

A new software tool developed by Texas Biomedical Research Institute and collaborators can help scientists and vaccine developers quickly edit genetic blueprints of pathogens to make them less harmful.

16 Mar 2023

Pungent ginger constituent puts white blood cells on heightened alert

Ginger has a reputation for stimulating the immune system. New results from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (Leibniz-LSB@TUM) now support this thesis.

15 Feb 2023

New family of pharmaceutical compounds that target RNA

In Jennifer Hines’ lab, a group of graduate and undergraduate chemistry students recently discovered a new family of compounds that can target RNA and interfere with its function. In the future, RNA-targeted treatments to treat cancer and metabolic diseases, together with bacterial and viral infections, could be developed using the chemical scaffold found in this research.

15 Feb 2023