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Evolution May 13, 2024

Study reveals insights into protein evolution

Rice University's Peter Wolynes and his research team have unveiled a breakthrough in understanding how specific genetic sequences, known as pseudogenes, evolve. Their paper was published May 13 in the Proceedings of the ...

Ecology May 11, 2024

Researchers share road map promoting sustainable fishing

Researchers at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have released a road map to help the global fishing industry become more sustainable. The five-step plan outlines how the fishing industry ...

Molecular & Computational biology May 11, 2024

Study discovers cellular activity that hints recycling is in our DNA

Although you may not appreciate them, or have even heard of them, throughout your body, countless microscopic machines called spliceosomes are hard at work. As you sit and read, they are faithfully and rapidly putting back ...

Biotechnology May 10, 2024

Team develops efficient host-vector system for a model archaeon by solving CRISPR-based host-plasmid conflict

A research group has constructed versatile genetic tools for Saccharolobus islandicus REY15A, one of the very few archaeal models for archaea biology and CRISPR biology research.

Bio & Medicine May 9, 2024

New DNA origami technique promises advances in medicine

A new technique in building DNA structures at a microscopic level has the potential to advance drug delivery and disease diagnosis, a study suggests.

Biotechnology May 9, 2024

AlphaFold 3 upgrade enables the prediction of other types of biomolecular systems

A combined team of medical researchers and AI systems specialists from Google's Deep Mind project and Isomorphic Labs, both in London, has made what the group describes as substantial improvements to AlphaFold 2 that make ...

Molecular & Computational biology May 9, 2024

Team develops an epigenome editing toolkit to dissect the mechanisms of gene regulation

Understanding how genes are regulated at the molecular level is a central challenge in modern biology. This complex mechanism is mainly driven by the interaction between proteins called transcription factors, DNA regulatory ...

Ecology May 8, 2024

A 'conservation conundrum'—when rat control to conserve one species threatens another

When pest rats and mice decimate populations of native species, pest control is a no-brainer. But what if baiting rats protects threatened songbirds, while poisoning critically endangered owls?

Cell & Microbiology May 7, 2024

Engineers develop innovative microbiome analysis software tools

Since the first microbial genome was sequenced in 1995, scientists have reconstructed the genomic makeup of hundreds of thousands of microorganisms and have even devised methods to take a census of bacterial communities on ...

Cell & Microbiology May 7, 2024

Microbiome studies help explore treatments for genetic disorders

A collaboration has led to the identification, in a bacterium of the intestine, of new CRISPR-Cas9 molecules that could have a clinical potential to treat genetic diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, through sub-retinal ...

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