An international team of researchers including limnologists from the University of Konstanz shows that rapid genomic changes during antagonistic species interactions are shaped by the reciprocal effects of ecology and evolution.
Evolution
Oct 2, 2019
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Steve Moose, an associate professor of maize functional genomics at the University of Illinois and his graduate student Wes Barber think they may have discovered a new source of heterosis, or hybrid vigor, in maize. They ...
Biotechnology
Jun 28, 2012
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A new study by researchers at The Wistar Institute, an international biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology, infectious disease, and vaccine development, has identified a new potential pathway for developing therapeutics ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 19, 2022
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Microbes in, on and around the planet are said to outnumber the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. The total number of viruses is expected to vastly exceed even that calculation.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 17, 2018
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The introduction of foreign genes into cells has a range of benefits, such as compensating for dysfunctional genes in cells and producing large amounts of specific gene products that can be harvested and used clinically. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 30, 2018
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Researchers from UNSW Sydney have discovered that a particular transposable element, or jumping gene, in the genome has a profound effect on the immune response to virus infection.
Evolution
Aug 10, 2022
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Defective viruses incorporated into grass genomes may adapt to form partnerships with other genome-incorporated viruses in order to complete their life cycle, according to a new PLOS Pathogens study. The findings suggest ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 29, 2017
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Viruses like influenza A and Ebola invade human cells in a number of steps. In an interdisciplinary approach, research teams from Heidelberg University and Heidelberg University Hospital investigated the final stages of viral ...
Apr 25, 2023
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Newly discovered mouse viruses could pave the way for future progress in hepatitis research, enabling scientists to study human disease and vaccines in the ultimate lab animal. In a study to be published in mBio, the online ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 9, 2013
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The bluetongue virus is rapidly spreading in the Netherlands. With the use of new techniques, including whole genome sequencing, it has quickly become clear that the Dutch virus is a different virus variant in comparison ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 23, 2023
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