A blunt-headed tree snake (Imantodes inornatus) eating its way through a batch of treefrog eggs. Credit: John David Curlis, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.…
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In an unprecedented atlas, researchers begin to map how genes are turned on or off in different cells, a step toward better understanding the connections…
Germination in the non-mutated barley was almost complete, while the gene-edited barley did not germinate at all. This shows that the gene-edited barley had been…
Unusual clusters on neurons are calcium-signaling “hotspots” that activate gene transcription, allowing neurons to produce crucial proteins. For 30 years, mysterious clusters of proteins found…
Irritable bowel syndrome. Credit: Scientific Animations An international study of more than 50,000 people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has revealed that IBS symptoms may…
Yekaterina “Kate” Shulgina was a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, looking for a short computational biology project so she…
Sertoli cells are highly polarized cells that nurture different stages of germ cells at the same time. This image reveals how a single Sertoli cell,…
The evolution hotspots are caused by a tangle in the DNA that can disrupt the DNA replication machinery, resulting in mutations. Credit: cooperr Researchers from…
Evolutionary genomics approach identifies genes that enable plants to live in the Atacama Desert, offering clues for engineering more resilient crops to face climate change.…
Tracing the Impact of a Long-Lost Relative on Modern Bread Wheat Genetic detective work has uncovered an obscure ancestor of modern bread wheat, in a…
A new RNARibonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule similar to DNA that is essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression…
Photograph of Legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull c.1885. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution A man’s claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native…
Our DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix.…
Knocking out transposon promoter leads to pup death in mice; similar promoters found in many mammals. Nearly half of our DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is…
The “ray gun” instrument, a spectroradiometer. Credit: Courtesy of Lance Stasinski In Star Trek, characters carry a little handheld device called a tricorder that they can…
Credit: Dr. Tim Blower, Durham University A new study led by a team of bioscientists from Durham University, UK, in collaboration with University of Liverpool,…
An anti-viral gene that impacts the risk of both Alzheimer’sAlzheimer’s disease is a disease that attacks the brain, causing a decline in mental ability that…
A sampling of snake diversity. Clockwise from upper left: rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchria), image credit Pascal Title, U-M Museum of Zoology; Amazon basin tree snake…
A new study published in Nature Communications reconstructs regional incidence profiles of COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an…
Jomon teeth vs Native American teeth. Credit: G. Richard Scott, University of Nevada Reno Latest scientific findings suggest the ancestral Native American population does not…