Insights from their study may provide a novel therapeutic approach for diseases such as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s. Associate Professor Roger Pocock, from the Monash Biomedicine…
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Unlike wine, which generally improves with time, beer does not age well. Usually within a year of bottling, the beverage starts to develop an unpleasant…
First direct analysis of pathogenic sequence repeats in the human genome. Expansions of DNA repeats are very hard to analyze. A method developed by researchers…
New research challenges traditional idea about relationship between alcohol use and brain size. For years, researchers have observed that alcohol consumption is associated with reduced…
Artistic reconstruction of Stephanorhinus in its natural environment. Credit: Mauricio Anton New research on ancient rhino tooth could unlock evolution mysteries. Scientists from the University…
H. Mephisto (the Devil Worm). (microscopic image, magnified 200x). Credit: Prof. John Bracht, American University When scientists discovered a worm deep in an aquifer nearly…
The koloa is a “petite, buffy brown and charismatic duck,” similar to a female mallard. Credit: Christopher Malachowski, Oregon State University The endangered Hawaiian duck,…
Is Evolution Predictable? This study of Heliconius butterflies says that it isn’t. An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies at the Smithsonian Tropical…
Crustose Ophioparma lichen. Credit: (c) Matthew P. Nelsen, Field Museum You’ve probably seen a lichen, even if you didn’t realize it. If you’ve ever meandered…
A study on mice shows animal research may need to take into account the connection between genes, behavior and personality. We might refer to someone’s…
Scientists have found there are likely millions of ways of storing biological information. But why does biology do it the way it does? Scientists computed…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, together with colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Sciencein Israel have developed a computational…
“The major research directions and technology platforms that [my] lab is known for today came out of this process where the students or I had…
Researchers identified changes in the genetic code used to translate DNA into protein. Credit: Tomislav Alajbeg Crack open a biology textbook and you will find…
The microprotein PIGBOS (magenta) shown sitting on the outer membranes of mitochondria (green), where it is poised to make contact with other organelles in the…
The 1KP initiative, a collaborative effort of nearly 200 scientists, spans green algae to land plants, providing a framework for examining 1 billion years of…
A puma kitten, at home in her nursery, peers through a hole in a redwood log in the Sana Cruz Mountains. Scientists have now sequenced…
Greater understanding of phenomena could enable unprecedented control over gene expression. Magnetogenetics — the idea that you can use magnetic fields to control cells and…
The molecules of life are twisted. But how those familiar strands in DNA’s double helix manage to replicate without being tangled up has been hard…
An illustration imagining the molecular machinery inside microbes as technology. Credit: Wayne Keefe/Berkeley Lab A new genetic engineering tool will help open the floodgates of…