Ancient Jumping Genes May Help Wheat Survive Drought Through Epigenetic Control
A new study reveals that DNA methylation and ancient transposable elements may help wheat landraces fine-tune gene expression under drought, ...
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Hybrid Genome Assembly Reveals Effector Arsenal of White Rust Pathogen in Indian Mustard
Researchers have sequenced the complete genome of an Indian isolate of the white rust pathogen Albugo candida, revealing 13,715 genes ...
Inside the Nucleus: How a Fly Protein Guards Aging Neurons Against Death
A new review highlights how the nuclear scaffold protein LaminB acts as a stress-integration gatekeeper in neurons, with Drosophila studies ...
How Maize Remembers Drought: Epigenetic Memory and Seed Priming Could Shield the World’s Vital Cereal Crop
A new review reveals how maize stores molecular memories of past droughts through histone marks, DNA methylation and transposable elements, ...
Ancient Jumping Genes Turn Out to Be Hidden Architects of the Human Cortex
A Nature Neuroscience commentary highlights new evidence that genetic variants within Alu transposable elements help shape the size and structure ...
Big dogs really do age faster, and their epigenomes show it
A study of nearly 900 dogs in the Dog Aging Project shows that larger and male dogs undergo accelerated epigenetic ...
Jumping genes may explain why big dogs age faster and die younger
A large-scale study of 864 dogs finds that giant breeds lose methylation control over LINE1 jumping genes far faster than ...
How Embryos Police the Evolution of Duplicated Genes in Salmon
A massive multiomics study of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout shows that developmental constraints, particularly at the vertebrate phylotypic period, ...
Fungal Genome Guard Turns Out to Be a Secret Engine of Gene Evolution
A population-scale genomic study of Neurospora crassa shows that the fungal defense mechanism RIP pervasively mutates single-copy functional genes, revealing ...
Tiny Alga’s Oddball Chromosomes Live in Their Own Private Nuclear Neighborhoods
The first Hi-C analysis of the tiny alga Ostreococcus tauri shows that its enigmatic low-GC outlier chromosomes fold into sharply ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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