A study reveals how auxin and sucrose metabolism regulate bulbil initiation in Lilium lancifolium. By manipulating auxin levels and examining key sucrose metabolism genes, researchers found that low auxin concentrations enhance ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2024
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Researchers from the University of California, Irvine have developed a DNA enzyme—or DNAzyme—that can distinguish between two RNA strands inside a cell and cut the disease-associated strand while leaving the healthy strand ...
Biotechnology
May 8, 2023
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WEHI researchers have revealed how an "accordion effect" is critical to switching off genes, in a study that transforms the fundamentals of what we know about gene silencing.
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 5, 2022
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Plants have evolved detoxification defence systems as protection against an array of environmental or pathogen-produced contaminants.
Biochemistry
Jan 14, 2020
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24
Wrinkles on the skin of a microscopic worm might provide the key to a longer, healthier life for humans.
Biotechnology
Nov 20, 2019
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By silencing genes, researchers have managed to increase protein production in yeast significantly. This method can lay the grounds for engineering better yeast production hosts for industries producing biopharmaceutical ...
Biotechnology
Apr 29, 2019
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A new generation of pesticides can be used to control pest insects by compromising the bug's ability to create essential proteins. These gene-silencing pesticides can be genetically engineered into agricultural crops such ...
Ecology
Mar 1, 2019
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55
All the trillions of cells in our body share the same genetic information and are derived from a single, fertilized egg. When this initial cell multiplies during fetal development, its daughter cells become more and more ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 30, 2018
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210
A fertilized human egg develops into multiple tissues, organs and about 200 distinct cell types. Each cell type has the same genes, but they are expressed differently during development and in mature cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2017
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199
DNA in all organisms from yeast to humans encodes the genes that make it possible to live and reproduce. But these beneficial genes make up only 2 percent of our DNA. In fact, more than two-thirds of our genome is populated ...
Biotechnology
Aug 24, 2017
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