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‘The Catalyst’ Review: The RNA Renaissance
The Wall Street Journal· 10 hours agoWhile only 1½½% of the human genome codes for proteins, we now know that almost all the rest of the genome, sometimes referred to as ...
Here’s what a Nobel Prize-winning scientist wants you to know about the Covid-19 vaccines and the...
CNN via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoIn his new book “The Catalyst,” Thomas R. Cech talks about the Covid-19 vaccines, what RNA means for...
Depression, Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder Linked With Ancient Viral DNA In Our Genome – New...
IFLScience· 6 days agoDepression, Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder Linked With Ancient Viral DNA In Our Genome – New...
"Unassuming" fern has largest genome yet found. "It's just ridiculous"
Boing Boing· 5 days agoTmesipteris oblanceolata, a fern, has a genome five times larger than the human one. There's also...
A Single Mutation Gave These Fish a Sense of Curiosity And Opened Up Their World
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoUsing the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology, the researchers also prompted targeted mutations in...
ESHG: Short-Read Genome Sequencing Boosts Rare Disease Diagnoses in European Solve-RD Project
GenomeWeb News· 3 days agoAccording to Steven Laurie, a data analyst at the ...Genomic Analysis (CNAG) in Spain, 90 out of 836 or about 10 percent of families who were analyzed by short-read genome ...
NIH Reports Scientists Generate the First Complete Chromosome Sequences from Non-Human Primates -...
Sierra Sun Times· 6 days agoPublished in Nature (link is external), these sequences uncover remarkable variation between the Y...
Scientists Find the Largest Known Genome Inside a Small Plant
New York Times· 6 days agoLast year, Jaume Pellicer led a team of fellow scientists into a forest on Grande Terre, an island...
Study offers hope to people with restless legs syndrome
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoProfessor Juliane Winkelmann...patients.” Previous studies had identified 22 genetic risk loci –...
Mutations in a non-coding gene associated with intellectual disability
Ars Technica· 5 days agoAlmost 1,500 genes have been implicated in intellectual disabilities; yet for most people with such disabilities, genetic causes remain unknown. To rectify this, Ernest Turro—a biostatistician ...