Killing giant ragweed just got harder for some Wisconsin farmers
When giant ragweed takes hold in a crop field, the towering weed reduces yield and sends plumes of its famously […]
Mechanisms of antibody gene diversification during somatic hypermutation microbiologystudy
AID-induced U/G lesions can be perfectly repaired or may result in C/G transition mutations via DNA replication, C/G transition or
Universal flu vaccine candidate protects against infection in mice microbiologystudy
Annual flu vaccines protect against severe infection, but they vary in efficacy and may not match the most virulent strains
From pets to pests: How domestic rabbits survive the wilderness
How do rabbits go from fluffy pets to marauding invaders? Rabbits have colonized countries worldwide, often with dire economic and
Researchers discover DNA mechanism that regulates how disease-causing mutations are inherited microbiologystudy
A live C. elegans animal with the mitochondria in its nervous system decorated with red and green fluorescent proteins. Credit:
Brain organoid model implicates gene in disease progression microbiologystudy
Huntington’s Disease organoids (right) exhibit almost no neural progenitors (red) and also show defects in cellular polarity (yelllow). These defects
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Finding new treatments for genetic tumor-predisposition syndrome microbiologystudy
Clinically diverse cNFs give rise to organoids with similar histopathological features. Credit: Cell Reports Methods (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2024.100772 A new report
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Reading your biological age in your blood or saliva? It’s not as simple as that, study shows microbiologystudy
Epigenetic clocks are impacted by the differentiation stage and proliferation history of cells, as well as by age-associated changes in
Two proteins identified as potential targets to improve ALS symptoms microbiologystudy
Credit: Cell Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114626 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that is incurable. The disease is