Genes

The findings support many vaccine strategies being used to tackle the new coronavirus LA JOLLA, CA--A team led by scientists at Scripps Research has discovered a common molecular feature found in many of the human antibodies that…

Rebekah Charney's research aims to shed light on the mechanisms underlying Mowat-Wilson syndromeCredit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Rebekah Charney, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Medicine at the University of…

Scientists study the 24-hour pattern of magnesium intake in a rice plant to see if the photosynthetic efficiency of the plant can be improvedCredit: 2020 Nature Plants The fundamental process that arguably forms the backbone of…

This work is a step forward in understanding early molecular changes that influence the development of addiction, and may have application to the role of similar gene programs that mediate other types of behavior, memory formation or…

Presence of MSH1 gene in plants offers clue for why animal mitochondrial genomes tend to mutateCredit: Dan Sloan/Colorado State University One could say that mitochondria, the energy-producing organelles inside every human cell, dance…

Credit: HZAU Some mandarin fish species (Sinipercidae) are pure fish-eaters, which feed exclusively on living juvenile fish - also of their own species. A research team led by the Chinese Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) and…

DNA hypermethylation responsible for reduced amygdala volume in male patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.A) CpG site where the structure and methylation of the SERT gene were analyzed. Transcription is performed from right to…

Credit: Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, PA) - The human heart is like a sponge, able to expand and grow, increasing its capacity to take up blood. In theory, an enlarged heart can also squeeze out more blood, with more…

Findings could discover how disease-causing variations lead to a variety of autoimmune disorders Philadelphia, July 8, 2020 - A team of researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) used a new method of pinpointing potential…

Scientists decipher the evolutionary history of a coral reef predatorCredit: OIST Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have revealed the evolutionary history of the…

Credit: Chuanxiao Xie Crop hybrid technologies have contributed to the significant yield improvement worldwide in the past decades. However, designing and maintaining a hybrid production line has always been complex and laborious. Now,…

Study identifies rapidly dividing cancer stem cells that can respond to new therapiesCredit: The Neuro Brain cancers have long been thought of as being resistant to treatments because of the presence of multiple types of cancer…

Credit: CNIO Science is collaborative by nature, since scientific knowledge only advances, step by step, through combined efforts and findings. Nevertheless, there is often a lack of communication regarding the more technical and…

Credit: Hans Bisgaard New research found that, compared with a father's traits related to allergies and asthma, a mother's traits create a higher risk that a child will develop these same traits in early childhood. By the time the children…

Findings could lead to new therapies for cancer, heart abnormalities Look deep inside our cells, and you'll find that each has an identical genome -a complete set of genes that provides the instructions for our cells' form and function.…

Credit: Samir Kadri, a former York visiting PhD student What causes African hybrid honey bees (AHB), also known as killer bees, to be highly defensive and aggressive? York University researchers have found it was the mixing of…

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have developed software to identify cancer-causing mutations lurking in vast regions of the human genomeCredit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Gene coding regions constitute…

Credit: Korber et al. / Cell On May 5, 2020, news broke about a reportedly more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2--the virus that causes COVID-19--based on a preliminary paper posted to the preprint server bioRxiv. The preprint…

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 2, 2020--The Editor-in-Chief of Human Gene Therapy, the first journal devoted to the field of gene therapy, and one of the world's leading experts on gene therapy…

Credit: Photo source: DOI number: 10.1038/s41592-020-0866-0 While scientists still don't fully understand the diverse nature of RNA molecules, it is believed that the proteins binding to them, called RNA-binding…