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How Do Plants Resist Clubroot?

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, spearheaded by Yuhang Chen and Jianmin Zhou, have demonstrated how plants fight clubroot, a significant root disease that threatens the productivity of Brassica crops like rape.

12 Jun 2023

Exploring the Tilapia Genome to Help Breed Resilient Fish

Recent research from the Earlham Institute identified candidate genes that might help fish endure warmer and saltier water, possibly providing a vital resource to drive breeding programs in freshwater aquaculture.

12 Jun 2023

Wild Mammals Traveled Longer Distances During Strict COVID-19 Lockdowns

Human behavior changed dramatically during lockdowns in the first months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in behavioral changes of land mammals.

12 Jun 2023

Lundquist Institute Contributes to Genetic Study of Insulin Response to a Glucose Challenge

The Lundquist Institute (TLI) announced that its Institute for Translational Genomics and Populations Sciences contributed to a new study published today in Nature Genetics of the DNA of more than 55,000 people worldwide.

12 Jun 2023

Genetic Discovery Sheds New Light on Diversity in Voice and Speech

In a paper published today in Science Advances, an international team led by deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, reveals the discovery of sequence variants in the gene ABCC9 that influence the pitch of voices.

12 Jun 2023

Hytera Supports ZimParks to Improve Staff Safety and Conserve Wildlife

Hytera Communications, a leading global provider of professional communications technologies and solutions, has partnered with Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) to improve the safety of rangers working across the parks and reduce wildlife poaching activities.

12 Jun 2023

Metrion Biosciences Appoints Dr Steve Jenkinson as VP, Drug Discovery and Safety Assessment to Strengthen US Operations

Metrion Biosciences Ltd (“Metrion”), the specialist ion channel contract research and drug discovery company, today announced the appointment of Dr Steve Jenkinson as Vice President, Drug Discovery and Safety Assessment.

12 Jun 2023

Squids Use RNA Recording to Change Key Proteins Dynamically

Octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid are members of the diverse family of marine creatures known as cephalopods. They can be found in every ocean, from warm tropical seas that are shallow to cold, abysmal depths.

9 Jun 2023

How Do Humans Maintain a Healthy Blood Sugar Level After Meals?

A study of more than 55,000 people’s DNA from around the world has given insight into how humans maintain appropriate blood sugar levels after eating, with implications for the current understanding of how the process goes awry in type 2 diabetes.

9 Jun 2023

Can Temperature Influence the Octopus Neural Transcriptome?

Each cell has a finite set of instructions inscribed in its DNA. Life, on the other hand, is unpredictable, and when the situation changes, animals must change.

9 Jun 2023

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Converted into Purified Pituitary Tissue

Human pluripotent stem cells were effectively transformed into purified pituitary cells, which aggregated into hormone-secreting organoids.

9 Jun 2023

Seaweed Cultivation Could Boost Food Production in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

To help solve hunger and malnutrition while also slowing climate change, some farmers could shift from land to sea, suggests a recent study from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. The study was published in Global Food Security.

9 Jun 2023

Study Analyzes the Development of a Novel Non-Viral Gene Therapy Procedure

The research group of Professor Kamimura in Niigata University have applied the novel, liver lobe-specific hydrodynamic delivery procedure to primates (baboons) for the first time.

9 Jun 2023

Neanderthal Genes are Responsible for Certain Traits in Modern Humans

Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out of Africa, but the question remained open on how much those genes are still actively influencing human traits -; until now.

9 Jun 2023

New Approach Predicts the Complementary Life Histories of Plant Pairs That Manage to Coexist

Like many ecological scientists, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign plant biology professor James O’Dwyer has spent much of his career searching for ways to measure and predict how specific plant communities will fare over time.

9 Jun 2023

Distribution of African Forest and Savanna Biomes are Highly Predictable by Climate, Finds Study

Coupled field observations and phytoclimatic modeling show that the distribution of African forest and savanna ecosystems are highly predictable by climate, researchers report in a new study.

9 Jun 2023

Key Atomic Structures of the Actin Filament Revealed Through Cryo-EM

Actin filaments -; protein structures critical to living movement from single cells to animals -; have long been known to have polarity associated with their physical characteristics, with growing "barbed" and shrinking "pointed" ends.

9 Jun 2023

Researchers Discover Novel Combination Therapy to Counter Antibiotic-resistant Mycobacterium Abscessus Infections

Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, in collaboration with Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore) and National University Hospital (NUH), have discovered a novel therapy by combining two antibiotics, rifaximin and clarithromycin, to treat Mycobacterium abscessus (M. abscessus), a non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) that causes chronic lung-related infections.

9 Jun 2023

Scientists Discover a New Step in the Differentiation of Precursor Cells Into Mature Basophils

Big changes often happen in small steps, and it's not always easy to see how we get from point A to point B.

8 Jun 2023

‘Lost World’ Discovery Could Change the Understanding of Our Earliest Ancestors

The discovery of a "lost world" of ancient organisms that lived in Earth's waterways at least 1.6 billion years ago could change our understanding of our earliest ancestors.

8 Jun 2023

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How Do Plants Resist Clubroot?

Exploring the Tilapia Genome to Help Breed Resilient Fish

Wild Mammals Traveled Longer Distances During Strict COVID-19 Lockdowns

Lundquist Institute Contributes to Genetic Study of Insulin Response to a Glucose Challenge

Genetic Discovery Sheds New Light on Diversity in Voice and Speech

Hytera Supports ZimParks to Improve Staff Safety and Conserve Wildlife

Metrion Biosciences Appoints Dr Steve Jenkinson as VP, Drug Discovery and Safety Assessment to Strengthen US Operations

Squids Use RNA Recording to Change Key Proteins Dynamically

How Do Humans Maintain a Healthy Blood Sugar Level After Meals?

Can Temperature Influence the Octopus Neural Transcriptome?

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Converted into Purified Pituitary Tissue

Seaweed Cultivation Could Boost Food Production in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Study Analyzes the Development of a Novel Non-Viral Gene Therapy Procedure

Neanderthal Genes are Responsible for Certain Traits in Modern Humans

New Approach Predicts the Complementary Life Histories of Plant Pairs That Manage to Coexist

Distribution of African Forest and Savanna Biomes are Highly Predictable by Climate, Finds Study

Key Atomic Structures of the Actin Filament Revealed Through Cryo-EM

Researchers Discover Novel Combination Therapy to Counter Antibiotic-resistant Mycobacterium Abscessus Infections

Scientists Discover a New Step in the Differentiation of Precursor Cells Into Mature Basophils

‘Lost World’ Discovery Could Change the Understanding of Our Earliest Ancestors

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