Pesticide contamination is more than apple skin deep
Pesticides and herbicides are critical to ensuring food security worldwide, but these substances can present a safety risk to people […]
Unexpected link between grooming and physiological stress in wild baboons
A new study from Swansea University has revealed a surprising relationship between grooming behaviour and physiological stress in wild female
Bacterial gut diversity improves the athletic performance of racehorses microbiologystudy
The composition of gut bacteria of Thoroughbred racehorses at one-month-old can predict their future athletic performance, according to a new
Machine learning approach helps researchers design better gene-delivery vehicles for gene therapy microbiologystudy
Systematic multi-trait protein optimization paradigm. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50555-y Gene therapy could potentially cure genetic diseases, but it
Classification of Pteridophytes (6 ways) with Examples microbiologystudy
The classification of pteridophytes has undergone various changes over the years. The traditional system of classification of vascular plants was
Researchers pioneer noninvasive measurement of gene expression at target locations in the brain microbiologystudy
Striatum region (left) in rodent brain with opened blood-brain barrier. Green fluorescent protein expressed in striatum region in rodent brain
Study finds viral defense protein speeds up female stem cell production microbiologystudy
Compared to untreated cells (left image), IFNγ-treatment (right image) leads to twice as many cells to reactivate the X-chromosome on
Genetics
Study reveals molecular subtypes of Down syndrome, offering insights for personalized medicine approaches microbiologystudy
Individuals with Down syndrome show variegated overexpression of genes encoded on chromosome 21. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49781-1 A
Genetics
Gene behind rare muscle disease discovered microbiologystudy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and The University of Western Australia (UWA)