People like these Baka hunter-gatherers once ranged well beyond their current homeland in Central Africa. Credit: CYRIL RUOSO/MINDEN PICTURES Children's skeletons give genomes more than 3000 years old Central Africa is far too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive-- or so scientists assumed. Currently, the bones of four children buried thousands of years earlier...
Lead author, Karl Barber with a PICASSO microarray. Credit: Karl Barber, Schmidt Science Fellows Researchers have repurposed the genetic modification innovation CRISPR to identify antibodies in a patient's blood samplings. This can influence a new class of medical diagnostics along with a host of various other applications. This technology entails customizable collections of proteins affixed to...
MIT researchers have devised a way to program memories into bacterial cells by rewriting their DNA more efficiently. Credit: MIT News, iStockphoto Organic engineers at MIT have created a brand-new way to edit bacterial genomes successfully and program memories right into microbial cells by revising their DNA. Using this technique, various spatial and temporal information...
Illustration. Credit: Yuval Robichek, Weizmann Institute of Science According to the Weizmann Institute of Scientific scientists, proteins can connect through DNA, performing a long-distance dialogue that functions as a type of genetic "switch." They discovered that the binding of proteins to one point of a DNA molecule could affect an additional binding point at a...
By analyzing your DNA and RNA with a computational pipeline and a curated database of pathogens, the mNGS system leads to far quicker diagnoses of rare diseasesGrumpyBeere / Pixabay (AI generated) Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have developed an innovative genomic test capable of rapidly detecting nearly any pathogen in a...
Green dye highlighting the DNA of microbes in a sample. (Suzuki et al., Microbial Ecology, 2024) Deep underground, a community of microbes has thrived in isolation for billions of years. These organisms, found in 2 billion-year-old rock, have been cut off far longer than any known subterranean microbes, surpassing the previous record of 100 million years. Geomicrobiologist...
Image from Pixabay Gout is often linked to poor diet and drinking habits, but new research reveals genetics as a stronger factor in developing the condition than previously believed. In a major study, researchers analyzed genetic data from 2.6 million individuals, including 120,295 with this disease, identifying 377 DNA regions associated with the condition—149 of...
The 'how' behind the link between red meat consumption and cancer has been identifiedDepositphotos Mechanism Linking Red Meat to Colorectal Cancer Identified Researchers have identified the mechanism that connects the excessive intake of red meat to colorectal cancer, along with a potential intervention strategy for this type of cancer. Red meat serves as a vital source of...
A gynecologist points out that sitting for many hours with equipment that generates heat, such as a laptop, causes the temperature inside the scrotum to rise. Credit: compumake, The Covid-19 pandemic brought significant societal changes, including a rise in remote work. Many professionals, especially men, have continued to work from home in various countries. However,...
This microscope image provided by Osaka University and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in October 2024, shows the fertilization of a mouse egg marked in red and green. DNA is marked in blue, showing in the egg at the top and in a sperm cell at the bottom left. Credit: Yonggang Lu/Osaka University/IMP...
