A change of instructions in a computer program directs the computer to execute a different command. Similarly, synthetic biologists are learning the rules for how to direct the activities of human cells.
Biotechnology
Jun 23, 2021
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Choosiness will lead to the best offspring. Being too choosy, however, could in the end result in no offspring at all. Female fruit flies have a solution to this dilemma.
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2021
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High-value chemicals used in biofuels and pharmaceuticals can be made from bacteria by switching their chemistry to produce novel products. Researchers from the University of Warwick have found a way to drastically cut the ...
Biotechnology
Jun 8, 2021
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In some environments there is no way for a seed to know for sure when the best time to germinate is.
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2021
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As a pioneer plant of the mobile and semi-mobile sand dunes in arid and semi-arid region, Agriophyllum squarrosum, also called "sand rice", is a folk Mongolian medicine with pleiotropic pharmacological and ecological economic ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2021
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A new study by Stanford University biologists finds an explanation for the idea that physical characteristics such as skin pigmentation are "only skin deep." Using genetic modeling, the team has found that when two populations ...
Evolution
Apr 5, 2021
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Many people have never heard of Brucellosis, but farmers and ranchers in the United States forced to cull animals that test positive for the disease and people infected by the animal-transmitted Brucella abortus (B. abortus) ...
Veterinary medicine
Mar 17, 2021
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Tuberculosis bacteria have evolved to remember stressful encounters and react quickly to future stress, according to a study by computational bioengineers at Rice University and infectious disease experts at Rutgers New Jersey ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 22, 2021
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An international team of researchers has conducted a genomic study of 40 human remains recovered from parts of upper east Asia in what is now mostly Siberia. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group ...
My lab, based at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, uses zebrafish to model human birth defects affecting the face. When I tell people this, they are often skeptical that fish biology has any relevance ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 10, 2020
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