New research involving Monash University biologists has debunked the view that males just pass on genetic material and not much else to their offspring. Instead, it found a father's diet can affect their son's ability ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2017
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Timothy Blake, a postdoctoral fellow in the Waymouth lab, was hard at work on a fantastical interdisciplinary experiment. He and his fellow researchers were refining compounds that would carry instructions for assembling ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 16, 2017
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More and more scientists are using the powerful new gene-editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas9, a technology isolated from bacteria, that holds promise for new treatment of such genetic diseases as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 7, 2017
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A new technique will help biologists tinker with genes, whether the goal is to turn cells into tiny factories churning out medicines, modify crops to grow with limited water or study the effects of a gene on human health.
Biotechnology
Jan 20, 2017
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Researchers have discovered a way to program cells to inhibit CRISPR-Cas9 activity. "Anti-CRISPR" proteins had previously been isolated from viruses that infect bacteria, but now University of Toronto and University of Massachusetts ...
Biotechnology
Dec 8, 2016
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We can tell when plants need water: their leaves droop and they start to look dry. But what's happening on a molecular level?
Biotechnology
Nov 3, 2016
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In order to use the CRISPR-Cas9 system to cut genes, researchers must design an RNA sequence that matches the DNA of the target gene. Most genes have hundreds of such sequences, with varying activity and uniqueness in the ...
Biotechnology
Oct 25, 2016
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Research led by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the University of Washington has shown that the biological diversity needed for evolution can be generated by changes in protein modifications. The findings, ...
Biotechnology
Oct 13, 2016
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New research by scientists from the University of Chicago demonstrates that the enzyme ALKBH1 can remove molecular modifications from transfer RNA, causing a measurable effect on protein translation in the cell. The study, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 13, 2016
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You read that right. Plants have hormones.
Biotechnology
Sep 28, 2016
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