Zebrafish and humans look very different on the outside. Yet about 70 percent of their genes are similar to human genes—including many that can trigger diseases. That makes the animal a popular model organism. Many observations ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2022
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A team of researchers has spent years taming mysterious marine microbes from the open ocean to grow in a lab, to investigate their feeding habits. The group's latest discoveries, led by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa oceanography ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 23, 2022
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Single-cell RNA sequencing, or "scRNA-seq" for short, is a technique that allows scientists to study the expression of genes in an individual cell within a mixed population—which is virtually how all cells exist in the ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 14, 2022
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Despite its minute size, a single cell contains billions of molecules that bustle around and bind to one another, carrying out vital functions. The human genome encodes about 20,000 proteins, most of which interact with partner ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 25, 2022
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It may seem hard to believe, but each one of us began as a single cell that proliferated into the trillions of cells that make up our bodies. Though each of our cells has the exact same genetic information, each also performs ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 21, 2022
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The Earth Biogenome Project, a global consortium that aims to sequence the genomes of all complex life on earth (some 1.8 million described species) in ten years, is ramping up.
Biotechnology
Jan 19, 2022
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The study of the human body at single-cell level has received a boost with the creation of a new tool, which will allow researchers to see not only the function of cells, but also where they are situated within tissues. The ...
Biotechnology
Jan 13, 2022
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Previously, researchers from Tianjin University designed and created a 254 kb digital data carrying artificial chromosome in yeast. This work "is a key proof-of-concept that demonstrated how artificial chromosomes can be ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 11, 2022
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Clemson researcher Chris Saski admits sending the University's iconic Tiger Paw to space aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is, quite literally, "an out-of-this-world experience."
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2021
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Scientists have developed a pioneering new technique to barcode individual cells more accurately and efficiently—which could help pave the way for quicker disease diagnosis.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 17, 2021
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