We are in the midst of a fascinating journey to understand the cellular phenotypes that compose human bodies and how the human genome is used to build and maintain each cell. "To catalog our human cell types, to understand ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 15, 2019
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Geneticists exploring the dark heart of the human genome have discovered big chunks of Neanderthal and other ancient DNA. The results open new ways to study both how chromosomes behave during cell division and how they have ...
Evolution
Jun 18, 2019
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a specialised population of skin cells that coordinate tail regeneration in frogs. These 'Regeneration-Organizing Cells' help to explain one of the great mysteries ...
Plants & Animals
May 16, 2019
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet present a publicly available resource that can accelerate the use of so-called FISH techniques for studying how the genome is spatially organised in the cell nucleus. The new platform, ...
Biotechnology
Apr 12, 2019
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An international team of researchers has succeeded in making 13,200 edits to a single cell—and the cell survived. In their paper uploaded to the bioRxiv preprint server, the team describes the edits they made, how they ...
Scientists have shown that different segments of a virus genome can exist in distinct cells but work together to cause an infection.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 12, 2019
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A research team has established a novel method to scrutinize DNA replication in individual cells. This method allowed them to obtain a detailed genome-wide view of replicated and unreplicated sequence distribution in each ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 25, 2019
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Droplet microfluidics has revolutionized single-cell RNA sequencing, offering a low-cost, high-throughput method for single-cell genomics. However, this method has been limited in its ability to capture complete RNA transcription ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 20, 2018
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The world's first instrument system for Raman-activated cell sorting and sequencing (RACS-SEQ) was recently developed in East China's Qingdao City, allowing functional identification, sorting and sequencing of individual ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 1, 2018
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They can be found on forest floors, swamps and in houses, ranging in size from smaller than the period on your smartphone's keyboard to stretching over several city blocks. More than a million species of fungi are estimated ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 8, 2018
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