Researchers have used gene editing to reverse symptoms in dogs of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)—a muscle-wasting and life-shortening disease that affects one in 5,000 baby boys.
Biotechnology
Jul 25, 2017
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that microbial species living on cheese have transferred thousands of genes between each other. They also identified regional hotspots where such exchanges ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 25, 2017
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To win the war against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, scientists seek the origin of resistance genes to identify how they are introduced to disease-causing bacteria. Identifying the origin of resistance genes and how they ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 19, 2017
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Gene transfer is seen as a hopeful therapy for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients. The approach involves using harmless laboratory-produced viruses to introduce important genes into the brain cells. In a study on mice, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 16, 2017
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Herbivore gut fungi hold a lot of promise. Just ask Michelle O'Malley.
Biotechnology
Jun 6, 2017
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Scientists know that atmospheric oxygen irreversibly accumulated on Earth around 2.3 billion years ago, at a time known as the Great Oxidation Event, or GOE. Prior to that time all life was microbial, and most, if not all, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 6, 2017
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A team of investigators from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario, has discovered a gene that confers resistance to the important broad-spectrum antibiotic, fosfomycin. The researchers found the gene in isolates ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2017
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The inflammatory response that is supposed to ward off pathogens that cause intestinal disease makes this even worse. This is because special viruses integrate their genome into Salmonella, which further strengthens the pathogen.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 28, 2017
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Gene transfers are particularly common in the antibiotic-resistance genes of Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria.
Biotechnology
Feb 24, 2017
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A Czech-German team of researchers around Dr. Václav Mahelka from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Dr. Frank Blattner from the Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) ...
Biotechnology
Jan 31, 2017
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