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URBANA, Ill. – Corn, soybean, and cotton farmers shudder at the thought of Palmer amaranth invading their fields. The aggressive cousin of waterhemp – itself a formidable adversary – grows extremely rapidly, produces hundreds of thousands of seeds per plant,…
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2019 — You’ve probably heard stories about mothers lifting cars to save their babies trapped underneath — but are those just urban myths? This week on Reactions, we talk about “superhero strength” and the chemistry behind what’s…
Researchers in Belgium present new findings on X chromosome reactivation
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is set up to fund individual projects in fields like genomics, computational biology, and pathology. Now researchers at University of Colorado Cancer Center are taking advantage of an innovative new program in cancer systems biology…
The researchers found a way to repurpose cells more reliably than current methods by untangling DNA,
A woman’s bone marrow may determine her ability to start and sustain a pregnancy, report Yale researchers in PLOS Biology . The study shows that when an egg is fertilized, stem cells leave the bone marrow and travel via the…
Cold Spring Harbor, NY– Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press announced the release of Engineering Plants for Agriculture , available on its website in hardcover and eBook formats. Agriculture plays a vital role supporting human life on Earth but faces significant…
CHOP researchers: Finding may offer a key target for future treatments
Back in 2015, an interdisciplinary group of research scientists made their case during a business pitch competition: They want to create a subscription-based service, much like 23andMe, through which people could send in samples for detailed analyses. The researchers would…
An article shows that 3 species of electric eel exist, not just one as previously described, and tha
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have launched a new, unique study recruiting black women with breast cancer designed to better understand and treat neuropathy, a side effect from chemotherapy. The National Cancer Institute-sponsored clinical trial, EAZ171, is led…
Recognition for basic and clinical medical research and public service
Did you know that the DNA in any cell of the human body – or any organism for that matter – contains the genetic information required to develop every possible type of cell within that organism? Yet cell types differ…
Could contribute to wine’s varying flavors, aromas, researchers say
USC and Duke researchers say the framework illustrates how environmental and genetic factors interac
DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects
ST. LOUIS, MO, September 9, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through its Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) has launched a major initiative to develop bioenergy crops through genomics-based research. Danforth Center Principal Investigator, Andrea Eveland,…
A clinical study comparing liquid and tissue biopsies finds multiple resistance mechanisms in indivi
Brain tumor researchers will use an advanced sequencing technology developed at the Stanford University School of Medicine to decode the messages or signals that help brain tumors grow, in the hope of finding new ways to treat the disease in…
True or false? Bacteria living in the same space, like the mouth, have evolved collaborations so generous that they are not possible with outside bacteria. That was long held to be true, but in a new, large-scale study of microbial…
UC San Diego researchers shown they can stabilize genetic circuits without getting into the business
UH evolutionary biologist publishes findings on sex determinates of house flies
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania provide a molecular map of every cell in a developin
A ravening predator in the Canary laurel forests
SILVER SPRING, Md. – Scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research joined a network of African scientists, the Plasmodium Diversity Network Africa, and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to publish a groundbreaking study about the genetic diversity of the…
Researchers have successfully sequenced the first genome of an individual from the Harappan civilization, also called the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). The DNA, which belongs to an individual who lived four to five millennia ago, suggests that modern people in…
Columbia University will award the 2019 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to three scientists: Lewis C. Cantley, Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA, David M. Sabatini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Howard Hughes…
The largest-ever study of ancient human DNA, along with the first genome of an individual from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, reveal in unprecedented detail the shifting ancestry of Central and South Asian populations over time. The research, published online…
EAST LANSING, Mich – The United States grew more than a million acres of potatoes in 2017, making the number one vegetable crop in the country a tuber. But potatoes are not the only tubers. Jerusalem artichoke, potato bean and…
ST. LOUIS, MO, September 4, 2019 – Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are higher than at any point in the past 800,000 years and in 2017, the global average amount of CO2 hit a new record: 405 parts per million, according…
Researchers from the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute (IJC), discover that a non-coding re
Winning postdoctoral scientists include neuroscientist researching mosquito feeding habits, theoreti
‘Black Dog’ blamed for major diseases
The evolutionary pressure to pass on DNA can produce behavior that otherwise makes no sense in a struggle to survive. Rams bash heads in fights over females; peacocks grow elaborate tail feathers that attract mates and predators alike. Sexual selection…
Various types of DNA damage can have serious repercussions, both for the individual cells in which they occur and for the organism as a whole. Instances of simultaneous breakage of both strands of the DNA helix are particularly harmful. Such…
Two-pronged approach stymies AML escape plan, could have applications to many cancers
Microbes are well-known among biologists as master engineers of useful small molecules, and there are many tricks of their trade. When researchers at the University of Illinois took a closer look at how a known microbe makes a known so-called…
Boston Medical Center and Columbia University Irving Medical Center awarded grant for new trial
International uproar followed the recent birth of the first babies created from embryos whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough technology. Another scientist has announced the intention to create more gene-edited babies. The potential uses of gene-editing technologies such…
Researchers of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute have discovered an epigenetic lesion
Corals are shown to recycle their own waste ammonium using a surprising source of glucose–a finding that reveals more about the relationship between corals and their symbiotic algae. Symbiosis between corals and algae provides the backbone for building coral reefs,…
Nutritional adaptability and how some flies can be ‘generalists’ and others are ‘specialists’
Our individuality is encrypted in our DNA, but it is deeper than expected
Region gives rise to serious disease, discovery could lead to new genetic testing
A multi-national team of evolutionary biologists shows that diversity exists even when expecting oth
Protein-coding genes comprise a mere 1% of DNA. While the other 99% of DNA was once derided as “junk,” it has become increasingly apparent that some non-coding genes enable essential cellular functions. Wei Li, Ph.D., a principal investigator in the…
Using single-cell analysis of immune cells involved in the onset of disease, a new study provides am
Gene identified in mice affects both size of a bacterial population and bile acid levels in blood
How is it that a fish that lived in difficult to access caves in rural Mexico is becoming a leading model to study diabetes, insomnia, and obesity? It’s all about this tiny, translucent, cave-dwelling fish that lost its eyes to…
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that inflammation in the lungs of rats, triggered by something as simple as the flu, may wake up a silent genetic defect that causes sudden onset cases of pulmonary hypertension,…
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