Arabidopsis growing in the Coruzzi Lab at NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. Credit: New York University Findings have implications for increasing plant nitrogen…
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Increased levels of serotonin transporters in the amygdala may be to blame. Anxiety-prone people can blame serotonin cleanup proteins gone awry in their amygdala, according…
Stone artifacts from the Initial Upper Paleolithic at Bacho Kiro Cave: 1-3, 5-7 Pointed blades and fragments from Layer I; 4 Sandstone bead with morphology…
The relationship between the coronavirus and human genetics is murky. The big idea When some people become infected with the coronavirus, they only develop mild…
A cellular pathway in plants to sense danger signals and elicit a response. Credit: Tokyo University of Science Scientists uncover how oral secretions of the…
By analyzing virus genomes from over 7,500 people infected with Covid-19, a UCL-led research team has characterized patterns of diversity of SARS-CoV-2 virus genome, offering…
Cape honey bee workers laying parasitic eggs on a queen cell. Credit: Professor Benjamin Oldroyd/University of Sydney Researchers discover a gene in honey bees that…
The exotic animal’s genome could point to possible treatment options for COVID-19 in humans. Similar to how a smoke detector sounds off an alarm, certain…
An international research team has conducted the first in-depth, wide-scale study of the genomic history of ancient civilizations in the central Andes mountains and coast…
An artist’s representation of a free-energy landscape and two possible paths a protein might follow (left) to fold correctly and a third path (right) that…
This image shows the skull of one of the individuals studied along with tubes for genetic and isotope testing. Credit: Collection: San José de los…
Using machine learning, a team of Western computer scientists and biologists have identified an underlying genomic signature for 29 different COVID-19 DNA sequences. This new…
A watercolor-like illustration of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis. Credit: Alice C. Gray By shuffling DNA in and out of one gene, syphilis…
Dads emerged to reap the benefits of partnerships with females and other males, team of anthropologists and economists argue. Humans differ from other primates in…
Until now, scientists had assumed that there are about 80 so-called open reading frames (ORFs) in the genome of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1). These…
Phylogenetic tree diagrams form the basis of understanding microbial evolution. Long branches between the two domains in some trees may reflect a period of very…
The algorithm called “minimum epistasis interpolation” results in a visualization of how a protein could evolve to either become highly effective or not effective at…
A mother fruit bat with her nursing pup. These fruit bats (Rousettus madagascariensis) from Ankarana in northern Madagascar are from a species that carries a…
Researchers have reported a method to quickly identify mutated versions of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Credit: Drexel University Drexel University researchers have reported…
Millions of people have been tested for the novel coronavirus, most using a kit that relies on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This sensitive method…