Here’s how high-speed diving kingfishers may avoid concussions microbiologystudy
Genetic tweaks in kingfishers might help cushion the blow when the diving birds plunge beak first into the water to […]
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Study examines role of the gene TRPV4 in regulating perspiration in mice microbiologystudy
Representative TRPV4 staining in sweat glands from normohidrotic and anhidrotic skin from the same patient with acquired idiopathic generalized anhidrosis
Why Huntington’s disease may take so long to develop microbiologystudy
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Adeno-associated virus vectors can trigger innate immune pathways microbiologystudy
Innate sensors and downstream signaling in AAV recognition and antiviral response. Credit: Human Gene Therapy (2024). DOI: 10.1089/hum.2024.040 Adeno-associated virus
Fetuses make a protein that causes morning sickness in pregnancy microbiologystudy
A surge of a hormone made by fetuses triggers the stomach-turning nausea and vomiting of morning sickness, a new study
Novel genome editing approach restores hearing in adult preclinical models with genetic deafness microbiologystudy
AAV2-SaCas9-KKH-sgRNA-4 editing on hair cell survival. Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adn0689 Mass Eye and Ear researchers restored hearing
How ancient herders rewrote northern Europeans’ genetic story microbiologystudy
Ancient herders, who rode horses and drove ox-drawn carts west out of their grassy homelands in southwest Asia, erased a
Fossils of ancient chromosomes make it possible to assemble the genomes of extinct species microbiologystudy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team led by scientists from Baylor College of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, and Center Nacional
Geneticist Krystal Tsosie advocates for Indigenous data sovereignty microbiologystudy
Krystal Tsosie grew up playing in the wide expanse of the Navajo Nation, scrambling up sandstone rocks and hiking in