Not only animals and humans host a complex community of microorganisms—plants do this as well. Researchers at ETH Zurich have recently published two new studies that shed light on fundamental aspects of these close—and ...
Ecology
Jul 1, 2021
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Finnish researchers have been the first to determine the cause for the nonsyndromic early-onset hereditary canine hearing loss in Rottweilers. The gene defect was identified in a gene relevant to the sense of hearing. The ...
Plants & Animals
May 21, 2021
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We humans tend to regard incest as deeply disturbing. It's a strong social taboo, and it's underpinned by sound biological reasoning. Mixing genes with a non-relative is beneficial because it increases genetic diversity, ...
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2021
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In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, researchers found a cause for severe epilepsy resulting in death in Parson Russell Terrier puppies at a few months of age. A change in the PITRM1 gene can lead to a dysfunction ...
Veterinary medicine
Apr 20, 2021
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ETH researchers have found a gene mutation that causes the sperm of boars to immobilize. Their discovery will help pig breeders to exclude animals with this genetic defect from breeding in future.
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2021
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There is great potential in gene therapy for treating certain types of cancer and genetic defects, immunological diseases, wounds and infections. The therapies work by delivering genes into the patients' cells, which then ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 7, 2020
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Geneticist Jolanda van Leeuwen remembers the day she made a striking observation that would take her down a new research path. A strain of yeast cells carrying a complete deletion of an essential gene in their genomes, which ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 30, 2020
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Gene therapy generally relies on viruses, such as adeno-associated virus (AAV), to deliver genes into a cell. In the case of CRISPR-based gene therapies, molecular scissors can then snip out a defective gene, add in a missing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 3, 2020
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A new study reporting how a network of genes directs the development of the trachea and esophagus in mice has been published today in eLife.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 9, 2020
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In 2007, Finnish Airedale terrier breeders sent puppies that had died only a few days after being born for pathological examinations to the Finnish Food Safety Authority (Evira). Some litters had lost several puppies. A research ...
Biotechnology
Mar 25, 2020
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