It was like a map of New York missing all of Manhattan. The human reference genome finally has all its blank spots filled in, and seeing everything we missed the first time around is both repetitive—and enlightening.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 31, 2022
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In a paper published today in Sciences Advances, researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine revealed new details about a key enzyme that makes ...
Biotechnology
Mar 11, 2022
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A research group at the University of Helsinki has discovered the logic that controls gene regulation in human cells. In the future, this new knowledge could be used for investigating cancers and other genetic diseases.
Biotechnology
Feb 21, 2022
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When the smoke cleared after the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, the bush surrounding the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah was charred. Among the casualties was a NSW waratah, Telopea speciosissima, that had recently ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2022
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The use of genetic information is now indispensable for modern plant breeding. Even though DNA sequencing has become much cheaper since the human genome was decoded for the very first time in 2003, collecting the full genetic ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2022
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New research from the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine has revealed how humans evolved greater resistance against anthrax multiple times during history: when they developed a diet of more ruminants, and when agricultural ...
Evolution
Dec 7, 2021
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Most emerging infectious diseases of humans (like COVID-19) are zoonotic—caused by viruses originating from other animal species. Identifying high-risk viruses earlier can improve research and surveillance priorities. A ...
Ecology
Sep 28, 2021
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have sequenced the genome of a virulent Salmonella Enteritidis strain that sickened two poultry flocks in consecutive years and found that it was both antibiotic resistant ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 2, 2021
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Three RIKEN geneticists have discovered previously undetected snippets of genetic material from viruses lurking in DNA. The methods they developed for this discovery will be valuable for determining when this viral genetic ...
Biotechnology
Aug 10, 2021
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Ancient sediments from caves have already been proven to preserve DNA for thousands of years. The amount of recovered sequences from environmental sediments, however, is generally low, which confounds the analyses performed ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 12, 2021
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