In a study published in Nature Communications, Prof. Chao Yanjie's group at the Institute of Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a novel RNA interactome profiling technology ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 11, 2023
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The complexity of living organisms is encoded within their genes, but where do these genes come from? Researchers at the University of Helsinki resolved outstanding questions around the origin of small regulatory genes, and ...
Evolution
Dec 8, 2023
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A team of engineers at Duke University have developed a method to broaden the reach of CRISPR technologies. While the original CRISPR system could only target 12.5% of the human genome, the new method expands access to nearly ...
Biotechnology
Dec 5, 2023
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A research team, led by Professor Ja Yil Lee in the Department of Biological Sciences at UNIST has made a breakthrough in the field of molecular biology. Their research, published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research, has ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 4, 2023
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Biomolecular condensates transport RNA molecules inside of cells for functions such as cell signaling and regulating cell processes, but little is known about how they form distinct compositional identities, similar to how ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 30, 2023
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The Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, and life less than a billion years after that. Although life as we know it is dependent on four major macromolecules—DNA, RNA, proteins and lipids—only one is thought to have been ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 30, 2023
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Spatial transcriptomics (ST) emerges as a pivotal technique for cataloging gene expression across tissue sections while retaining crucial locational data.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 30, 2023
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Spain produces 50% of the world's cork and 30% of all cork stoppers. Cork is a natural polymer which has been a crucial element used to seal bottles, being of great importance for the wine industry. However, a major challenge ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 29, 2023
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Have you ever wondered why we carry two copies of each chromosome in all of our cells? During reproduction, we receive one from each of our parents. This means that we also receive two copies, or alleles, of each gene—one ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 29, 2023
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RNA (ribonucleic acid), which is made up of ribonucleotides, is a molecule found in all living organisms. RNA is thought to have probably preceded DNA in primordial life billions of years ago. RNA was eventually replaced ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 27, 2023
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