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Three New Chinese Neritidae Mitochondrial Genomes Clarify Their
4+ hour, 41+ min ago (901+ words) A trio of tiny snails collected along China’s coasts and waterways has provided scientists with new genetic clues to one of evolution’s most remarkable ecological stories: how members of the same gastropod family repeatedly moved between the sea, brackish estuaries…...
Study Maps Tobacco MADS-Box Genes and Their Roles in Axillary Bud
10+ hour, 48+ min ago (645+ words) A previously overlooked genetic network may help explain why tobacco plants rapidly produce side shoots after their main growing tip is removed....
Human long noncoding RNA localization is isoform-specific, obscured by
11+ hour, 15+ min ago (754+ words) gene-level analysis Bioengineer.org...
News: UNCOVERseq Exposes Off-Targets Missed by Established Standards
18+ hour, 38+ min ago (379+ words) An new end-to-end nomination workflow improves the nomination of genomic sites that may be unintentionally edited by CRISPR-Cas, combining high analytical sensitivity with a comparatively manageable list of candidates for confirmation. Tests in cell lines and human HSPCs suggest clinical…...
cGAS-Deficient Mice Show Premature Aging Linked to LINE1 Derepression and
15+ hour, 2+ min ago (752+ words) A new study published in Nature Aging reports that mice lacking the enzyme cGAS develop signs of premature aging, accompanied by the abnormal activation of repetitive genetic sequences known as LINE1 elements and a rise in inflammation....
Koala Populations Show Geographic Variation in Toll-Like Receptor Diversity
19+ hour, 37+ min ago (733+ words) Koalas may carry more genetic variation in a crucial first line of immune defence than previously recognised, according to a new study of 413 wild animals sampled across eastern Australia....
Plant Cross-Incompatibility Limits Genome Exchange and Gene Pool
22+ hour, 59+ min ago (878+ words) Crop wild relatives may hold the genetic tools needed to help agriculture withstand drought, heat, salinity, emerging diseases and increasingly unstable growing conditions. Yet the same evolutionary distance that preserved these valuable traits often prevents breeders from moving them into…...
East German Plant Genetics Pioneer Thomas Börner Celebrates 80th Birthday
23+ hour, 6+ min ago (684+ words) A scientist who conducted molecular genetics research behind the Iron Curtain, built international collaborations before German reunification, and helped reveal how chloroplasts communicate with the cell nucleus is being celebrated as one of Germany’s pioneering plant geneticists. Professor Thomas Börner,…...
Pepper Study Links Ultra-Long Centromere Haplotypes to Evolution and
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (54+ words) Pepper plants may be hiding some of their most consequential genetic variation in regions long treated as difficult, repetitive stretches of DNA. A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that ultra-long haplotypes surrounding pepper centromeres can extend across tens…...
Scientists characterize genetic variants across the human intrinsically
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (656+ words) Variant effect prediction has entered a new phase, but one of biology’s largest blind spots remains stubbornly difficult to resolve. Computational tools have become increasingly effective at estimating the consequences of missense variants in folded protein domains, where amino-acid positions…...