Maternal antibodies interfere with malaria vaccine responses microbiologystudy
Maternal antibodies passed across the placenta can interfere with the response to the malaria vaccine, which would explain its lower […]
Genetics
Gene technology detects more conditions than standard newborn screening, study finds microbiologystudy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Early results from a study of newborn screening methods show that DNA analysis picks up many
Researchers develop new tool to predict the impact of genetic variants microbiologystudy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study published in the journal Cell Genomics introduces a new tool called FUSE (Functional Substitution
Breathing deep: A metabolic secret of ethane-consuming archaea unraveled microbiologystudy
Seeps on the deep seafloor naturally emit alkanes, which are pollutants that are potentially dangerous to life and act on
Genetics
Genetic variants in melatonin receptor linked to idiopathic osteoporosis microbiologystudy
Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels Columbia University Medical Center researchers have identified specific variants in a melatonin receptor gene that
New AI tool predicts protein-protein interaction mutations in hundreds of diseases microbiologystudy
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists from Cleveland Clinic and Cornell University have designed a publicly-available software and web database to
Gene named for mythical Irish land could aid muscle function after traumatic nerve injuries microbiologystudy
The images above show neuromuscular junctions in a control group (left images), a group with a sciatic injury (middle images),
Paleontologists discover Colorado ‘swamp dweller’ that lived alongside dinosaurs
A team of paleontologists working near Rangely, Colorado, has uncovered a new (or, more accurately, very old) state resident —
Lyme borreliosis: New approach for developing targeted therapy microbiologystudy
Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. Up to 70,000 new cases are estimated each year