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Human Genome Breakthrough Paves Way for Personalized Genomics
5+ hour, 49+ min ago (517+ words) Scientists have reconstructed the most complete diploid human genome yet produced, creating a high-resolution sequence that contains both copies of every chromosome inherited from an individual’s parents....
New Platform Accelerates Bacterial Gene Mapping for Improved Biotechnology
9+ hour, 10+ min ago (584+ words) Design Bioengineer.org...
Why Longevity Research Must Prioritize Women
17+ hour, 17+ min ago (558+ words) Women may hold one of nature’s most important clues to the biology of aging, according to a new perspective published in Cell. The paper introduces the Reproductive Resilience Hypothesis, an evolutionary framework proposing that reproduction and longevity are not always…...
Complete marmoset genome opens new avenues for Alzheimer’s and
17+ hour, 32+ min ago (509+ words) Scientists have produced the first complete, end-to-end genome sequence of the common marmoset, creating a high-resolution genetic reference for one of the world’s most important emerging primate models of human disease....
Meet Philip J. Kranzusch: The Harvard scientist who traced human immunity back billions of years
1+ day, 14+ min ago (492+ words) The Times of India Viruses have been attacking living organisms for billions of years, long before humans first appeared on Earth Yet one of the biggest questions in biology has remained remarkably difficult to answer: where did the human immune…...
Comparative Study Reveals How Insula Structure Influences Brain Function
22+ hour, 21+ min ago (608+ words) The insula, a folded region tucked deep within the lateral sulcus of the cerebral cortex, is emerging as one of neuroscience’s most important—and most complicated—research targets. Once treated largely as a sensory relay, the insular cortex is now…...
Hydrogels Transform Particles into Fibres In Situ for 3D Printing
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (477+ words) Hydrogels are among the most promising materials in modern biomedicine. They are soft, water-rich networks that can resemble the physical environment of living tissue, making them useful for drug delivery, wound treatment, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine....
Death of girl during gene-editing clinical trial raises ethical concerns - Chinadaily.com.cn
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (511+ words) The death of a 6-year-old girl allegedly linked to an experimental gene-editing clinical trial in Shanghai has sparked widespread concern over the safety and ethical oversight of medical research involving human beings. The girl had Snijders Blok-Campeau syndrome, a rare…...
Uneven mitochondrial calcium regulator distribution shapes
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (448+ words) A new study has identified an important spatial principle governing how mitochondria support developing neurons: the machinery that controls mitochondrial calcium is not distributed evenly throughout the cell. Instead, calcium regulators appear to be positioned asymmetrically across neuronal compartments, allowing…...
Scientists uncover evolutionary history of gene associated with
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (402+ words) Variants in the human gene PSPH may help explain why some people develop severe neurological disorders linked to inadequate production of the amino acid L-serine....