Polygenic scores—estimates of an individual's predisposition for complex traits and diseases—hold promise for identifying patients at risk of disease and guiding early, personalized treatments, but UCLA experts found ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 19, 2023
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Aston University has worked with international partners to develop a software package to help scientists answer key questions about genetic factors associated with shared characteristics among different species.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 14, 2023
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In animals, DNA damage could lead to cancers. Although plants live for a long time without cancers, their growth is always challenged by many environmental factors, such as radiation, salinity, heavy metals and flooding, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 9, 2022
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Children's growth will be easier to assess following a University of Queensland-led study analyzing the genetic variants that influence height.
Biotechnology
Oct 12, 2022
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Heterophylly, the plasticity of leaf form in response to environmental conditions, occurs in aquatic and amphibious plants where it modulates leaf form, gas exchange and photosynthesis, providing a good model for plant acclimation ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2022
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The deletion of the Wt1 gene during the early stages of the embryonic reproductive organ formation leads to differences in sex development in adult mice, according to an article published in the journal PLOS Genetics and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 22, 2022
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Taxonomy, the study of how living organisms relate to one another as species, has been around since the 1700s. Though scientists and philosophers have long debated what makes a species a species, taxonomists treat each species ...
Evolution
Mar 29, 2022
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Repetitive behaviors—such as tail-chasing—are more common among dogs belonging to first-time owners, those who live with larger families and those who exercise for less than one hour per day, according to a survey of ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2022
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Populations of peninsular spiders that make aerial spider webs and move around the air by ballooning (using the silk threads as parachutes) present a more homogeneous genetics structure and are better connected between them. ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2021
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Lettuce drop is a lettuce disease that results in browning or wilting of leaves, plant collapse, and death. The disease has not been well-researched, but a new study shows that a stronger stem increases resistance to lettuce ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2021
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