GeneticsHub

03/08/2020

17 years after the Human Genome Project, researchers unlocked the X chromosome.

17 years after the Human Genome Project, researchers unlocked the X chromosome

01/08/2020

A new study of human ear tissues upends that thinking and identifies a new cause of age-related hearing los.

30/07/2020

Novel algorithm developed to prevent failure of engineered genetic systems.

28/07/2020

Rice in deepwater paddy fields can survive a slow-rising flood by a remarkably rapid elongation of submerged stem sections.

Modulators of stem length enable plants to cope with floods.

26/07/2020

Testing the safety mechanism.

Stanford researchers and colleagues have invented a genetic safety mechanism that can deactivate transplanted cells if they change in a problematic way.

24/07/2020

The two genes also exist in sugarcane, barley, and the well-studied grass Brachypodium distachyon.

Rice variety that can outgrow rising water yielded discovery of new genes

22/07/2020

“As the population ages, the urgency of improving preventive measures becomes all the more intense."

An international team of scientists has developed a novel genetic measure that could dramatically improve how doctors assess the risk of sustaining a fracture due to osteoporosis or fragility A full genome profile can be generated for approximately £35-40 per patient, a cost that is comparable to o...

22/07/2020

These investigators examined various risk factors for breast cancer in the population.

A pathogenic germline mutation rate of about 5% has been identified in women who had a family history of breast or ovarian cancer but no personal history of either disease.

22/07/2020

A massive new study has found evidence that blood iron levels could play a role in influencing how long you live.

22/07/2020

The researchers also believe the offspring, like most crossbred offspring, are infertile

A team of researchers working at Hungary's National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquaculture, has accidentally bred a new kind of fish—dubbed the sturddlefish by some observers, it is a cross between an American Paddlefish and a Russian Sturgeon...

22/07/2020

Quite different from those used a century later?

Ancient-DNA sleuths analyzing Civil War-era artifacts with 21st-century sequencing have recreated five genomes of smallpox vaccines from the 1860s.

22/07/2020

The team dug deeper into Cas Φ. Like surgical scissors.

Because of its tiny size, Cas Φ can squeeze into genetic crevasses to cut DNA previously protected by its surrounding environment.