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Scientists Uncover Hidden Protein Driver Behind Scarring Kidney Disease
2+ hour, 24+ min ago (658+ words) New research reveals that the protein Annexin A1 drives kidney fibrosis by activating YAP signaling and suppressing autophagy in renal fibroblasts, suggesting a promising therapeutic target for chronic kidney disease....
Zebrafish study uncovers surprising developmental reach of albinism gene OCA2
3+ hour, 30+ min ago (767+ words) Washington State University researchers found that mutations in the albinism gene OCA2 alter pigment cells, eye formation and dozens of other genes in zebrafish embryos, suggesting the gene plays a wider developmental role than melanin production alone....
Fat Rewrites the Rules of Liver Cancer Across Every Disease Stage
5+ hour, 9+ min ago (52+ words) A new review proposes that lipid metabolism plays fundamentally different roles at each stage of fatty liver disease progression to hepatocellular carcinoma, warning that therapies must be matched to the correct disease phase. News Source: Nathaniel Bowman. (October 13, 2026). Fat Rewrites…...
Scientists Pinpoint a Gene That Switches Off Pollen in Chinese Cabbage
4+ hour, 57+ min ago (564+ words) Researchers in Beijing have fine mapped a novel recessive male-sterility gene, Brmy1, in Chinese cabbage and identified the ROS-generating gene BrRBOHJ as the strong candidate behind premature tapetal degeneration and pollen abortion....
Hidden Motion Maps Reveal a Secret Code in the Brain’s Visual Cortex
7+ hour, 41+ min ago (677+ words) A computational study of cat primary visual cortex shows that motion direction and temporal frequency are encoded in subtle, spatially distributed activity patterns rather than fixed cortical maps....
Elephants continue to shape the savanna even after death
18+ hour, 13+ min ago (926+ words) Nutrient hotspots affect the ecosystem long after bones vanish image: An elephant transforms the spot where it dies, with a legacy that lasts long after the body is gone and the bones are scattered. view more (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Elephants…...
International Congress on Plant Biology, Genome Editing and Crop Sciences
1+ day, 26+ min ago (288+ words) Issuewire International Congress on Plant Biology, Genome Editing and Crop Sciences Rome, Lazio Oct 12, 2026 (Issuewire.com) - What determines the productivity, adaptability and quality of a crop? Answering such questions requires knowledge extending from molecular events inside individual cells to characteristics…...
What Makes Shoolini’s B Tech Bioinformatics Stand Out?
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (757+ words) Research from the first year, faculty guidance on scientific projects, and support to develop patentable ideas make B Tech Bioinformatics at Shoolini a unique program. With a strong combination of biology, programming and data analysis, students build a solid foundation…...
AI Model Flags Which Food-Allergic Babies Will Develop Asthma by School Age
20+ hour, 47+ min ago (655+ words) A prospective study of 447 food-allergic infants reports a cost-sensitive ensemble model that predicts school-age asthma with an AUC of 0.886 and zero missed cases using routine clinical data collected before age two....
Hidden Peptides in Tomato MicroRNAs Revealed by New Gene Catalogue
23+ hour, 8+ min ago (58+ words) Researchers have catalogued 107 candidate microRNA-encoded peptides in tomato, revealing a distinctive positively charged biochemical signature and conservation patterns tied closely to plant evolutionary distance. Article Title: Transcription start site aware catalogue of microRNA encoded peptides in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) News…...