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Plants & Animals Mar 16, 2024

City mouse or country mouse? Biologist collects mice from homes to study how they got so good at urban living

Dusty barns, gleaming stables and damp basements. These are all places where you might find a house mouse—or a member of my research team.

Molecular & Computational biology Mar 15, 2024

Cracking the pear genome: How students helped unlock a new tool for the pear industry

Pears are big business in the Pacific Northwest US. But did you know that traditional pear breeding has remained largely unchanged for centuries?

Astrobiology Mar 15, 2024

Protein fragments ID two new 'extremophile' microbes—and may help find alien life

Perfectly adapted microorganisms live in extreme environments, from deep-sea trenches to mountaintops. Learning more about how these extremophiles survive in hostile conditions could inform scientists about life on Earth ...

Evolution Mar 15, 2024

Research team identifies three bacteria species in the human gut that can break down cellulose

An international team of biotechnologists and evolutionary specialists has discovered three types of bacteria in the human gut that help to break down cellulose. In their project, reported in the journal Science, the group ...

Molecular & Computational biology Mar 14, 2024

New simpler and cost-effective forensics test helps identify touch DNA

Television dramas like CSI and NCIS make criminal investigations look easy. In real life, DNA testing can be challenging and requires expensive equipment, special facilities, and extensive training to identify DNA from a ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 14, 2024

Researchers reveal dual-function mechanism of bacteriophage-derived protein AcrIIA15

In response to the efficient attacks of the host CRISPR-Cas system, bacteriophages have evolved various resistance strategies, including encoding anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins. Since their initial discovery in 2013, over a hundred ...

Biotechnology Mar 13, 2024

Proof-of-concept study shows how human insulin can be produced in cow's milk

An unassuming brown bovine from the south of Brazil has made history as the first transgenic cow capable of producing human insulin in her milk. The advancement, led by researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 13, 2024

Study shows for the first time that different forms of cellular adhesion structures can interconvert

Cells form adhesion structures to anchor themselves in their environment. The coordinated assembly and disassembly of these adhesions also enables cells to move from one place to another.

Biotechnology Mar 13, 2024

A simple and robust experimental process for protein engineering

A protein engineering method using simple, cost-effective experiments and machine learning models can predict which proteins will be effective for a given purpose, according to a new study by University of Michigan researchers.

Plants & Animals Mar 12, 2024

Advancing plant biology with breakthroughs in single-cell RNA sequencing

Recent breakthroughs in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA), such as the recently developed "RevGel-seq" method, have revolutionized plant cell analysis. This technique, independent of special instruments, streamlines processes ...

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