Passing down a healthy genome is a critical part of creating viable offspring. But what happens when you have harmful modifications in your genome that you don't want to pass down? Baby plants have evolved a method to wipe ...
Plants & Animals
May 20, 2021
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The first frost of autumn may be grim for gardeners but the latest evidence reveals it is a profound event in the life of plants.
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2021
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Researchers at IMBA—Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences–unveil functional and mechanistic details in small RNA-mediated co-transcriptional gene silencing. The results are published ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 16, 2021
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Biologists have long wondered how complex organisms contain a variety of dramatically different types of cells with specialized functions, even though all of those cells are genetically identical.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 22, 2021
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Transposons are foreign DNA elements capable of random insertion into the genome, an event that can be very dangerous for a cell. Their activity must be silenced to maintain genomic integrity, which is primarily achieved ...
Biotechnology
Jan 15, 2021
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In a new study, researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have identified a handful of variations in an amino acid sequence critical for retaining the ancestral function of a gene over the course of 600 million ...
Biotechnology
Nov 18, 2020
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Transcription of genetic information is a fundamental process for life. If it does not work correctly, the consequences for the organism range from lethality to defects during development, genetic diseases, insufficient response ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 4, 2020
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There is plenty of scientific evidence that the health of a mother can impact the health of her child. Now a Northwestern University study flips that relationship around: Researchers have discovered the health of the fertilized ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 8, 2020
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In many plants the timing of flowering is controlled by a range of environmental and molecular signals.
Plants & Animals
Feb 4, 2020
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The quest to better understand how genomic information is read has taken a new step forward, thanks to pioneering new research.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 6, 2019
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