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8+ hour, 24+ min ago   (481+ words) 66-year-old patient lives 271 days without dialysis on gene-edited Yucatan pig kidney before receiving deceased donor organ A patient who received a pig kidney not only achieved the longest survival record to date after an animal kidney transplant, but also successfully…...

4+ hour, 23+ min ago   (400+ words) | Newswise Newswise Ginsenoside from Panax plants rewires root growth by blocking auxin traffic and triggering oxidative stress Integrative analysis of morphological alterations in P. ginseng adventitious roots following ZR1 treatment. Continuous cropping of Panax species—medicinal plants valued for their ginsenoside content…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago   (55+ words) A 29-year-old woman who had already survived colon cancer at an unusually young age has become the center of one of the most molecularly intricate cancer cases ever documented: a metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor arising in the setting of Lynch…...

1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (854+ words) In a finding that is sending ripples through the plant science community, researchers have created the first mutants defective in the Arg/N-degron protein degradation pathway in a major crop species, and the results defy the expectations built over nearly…...

5+ hour, 54+ min ago   (59+ words) In a development that could reshape how industry manufactures one of the most versatile platform chemicals in the bioeconomy, researchers in China have engineered a bacterium to recycle its own carbon dioxide in real time, coaxing it to produce succinic…...

6+ hour ago   (769+ words) Every day, laboratories and clinics around the world generate genetic sequences in which a single letter of the DNA code has been swapped for another, and many of these changes alter the amino acid composition of the proteins those genes…...

7+ hour, 42+ min ago   (894+ words) Ketoprofen, one of the most widely prescribed nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the world, has long been regarded as a reliable workhorse against pain, fever and inflammation, particularly in conditions such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and menstrual pain....

16+ hour, 28+ min ago   (86+ words) In a discovery that offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of sex chromosomes caught in the act of being born, researchers in China have mapped the earliest stages of X and Y chromosome evolution in the darkbarbel catfish (Tachysurus…...

16+ hour, 47+ min ago   (104+ words) Variants in a single “master switch” gene called NR5A1 have long been known to disrupt male sexual development, but why one child is severely affected while another with a similar mutation escapes with milder features has remained one of the most…...

19+ hour, 45+ min ago   (916+ words) In the largest genetic investigation of its kind to date, an international team of researchers has mapped the genetic architecture of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, the most common autoimmune disease in the world, through multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses spanning tens of thousands…...