Bloody Good Look by Scientists May Have Profound Effects on the Use of Medicinal Leeches
Study offers new insights into the powerful anticoagulants contained in the saliva of leeches most often used in medical practice. The results of new research…
Study offers new insights into the powerful anticoagulants contained in the saliva of leeches most often used in medical practice. The results of new research…
Gardenia’s newly sequenced genome highlights how evolutionary tinkering transforms plants into some of nature’s great chemical-makers. Plants are some of nature’s most extraordinary chemists. Unlike…
Human appetites have transformed the tomato — DNA and all. After centuries of breeding, what was once a South American berry roughly the size of…
Applied computational biology discoveries vastly expand the range of CRISPR’s access to DNA sequences. In nature, bacteria use CRISPR as an adaptive immune system to…
Cancer cells rewire their metabolism to compensate for a halt in fat production by importing more fat molecules from their environment. Knowing what cancer will…
An international team of scientists have identified candidate resistance genes that could protect ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), a deadly pest that…
What kind of interactions did the various Stone Age cultures have with one another? In a new interdisciplinary study, researchers have combined archaeological and genetic…
The three-dimensional structure of the human genome is essential for providing a rapid and robust inflammatory response but is surprisingly not vital for reprogramming one…
Scientists have long debated which genetic information carrier — DNA or RNA — started life on Earth, but a new study suggests life could have…
Cellular delivery system developed at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry could be missing link in battle against SARS-CoV-2. A team of scientists from Stanford University is…
The virus’s ability to change makes it likely that new human coronaviruses will arise. A team of scientists studying the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus…
The clinical presentation of COVID-19 varies from patient to patient and understanding individual genetic susceptibility to the disease is therefore vital to prognosis, prevention, and…
A global campaign to help find a mate for a left-coiling snail called ‘Jeremy’ has enabled scientists to understand how mirror-image garden snails are formed….
Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) through recombination and strong purifying selection. A combination of genetic shuffling and evolutionary selection of near-identical genetic…
How mice that model immune disease’s cytokine storms may point to solution for global pandemic. A transgenic mouse developed at Cincinnati Children’s to model the…
Sea snakes first entered the marine environment 15 million years ago and have been evolving ever since to survive in its changing light conditions, according…
Despite the traditional view that species do not exchange genes by hybridization, recent studies show that gene flow between closely related species is more common…
Having a faulty gene linked to dementia doubles the risk of developing severe COVID-19, according to a large-scale study. Researchers at the University of Exeter…