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To solve the most pressing scientific problems, scientists today often face enormous obstacles when it…
To solve the most pressing scientific problems, scientists today often face enormous obstacles when it…
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Share on PinterestLarge study identifies new genes that increase risk of type 2 diabetes. Robert…
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By US Department of Energy May 1, 2022A genome is the complete set of DNA…
Rob Martienssen, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) professor and HHMI researcher, has been elected…
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Sex and gender, influenced by genetics, epigenetics, and environmental/social stressors, must be considered in the…
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Bohring-Opitz syndrome (BOS) is a rare autosomal genetic disorder. It is a serious condition characterized…
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“Memories” can be passed down through the genetic code from one generation to the next.Stress…
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MSeveral studies have reported associations between child health and parental or grandparental lifestyle, while a…
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Jhe trees in the Amazon rainforest could soon die en masse, researchers warn. According to…
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Share on PinterestAn intriguing new study reveals that, in mice, repeated exposure to hypoxia can…
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Researchers are investigating how ancestral trauma might be “passed down” to future generations, through genetics…
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Whether guard cells (GCs) carry out photosynthesis has been debated for decades. Previous studies have…
A new study by researchers at the University of Liverpool has shown that the effects…
BOSTON- Human Primordial Germ Cells (PGCs) are the earliest precursors to egg cells (oocytes) and…
Human Primordial Germ Cells (PGCs) are the earliest precursors to egg cells (oocytes) and sperm…
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RThe researchers failed to replicate the results of a landmark study that purported to show…
Scientists from the USF Genomics Program and the Center for Global Health and Infectious Disease…
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The groundbreaking study involved researchers from Ovation Fertility, the University of Bath and the University…
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CELL BIOLOGY EDITOR’S CHOICEThe paperQ. Zhang et al., “Neuronal mitochondrial stress memory is inherited transgenerationally…
The government paid ordinary citizens massive rewards for hunting, capturing and scalping Indigenous people: children,…
“The wounds inflicted by the legacy of slavery linger heavily in this nation.”United States Representative…
“The wounds inflicted by the legacy of slavery linger heavily in this nation.” United States…
At the end of September, scientists from University of Virginia revealed the discovery of a…
Through Lisa Ercolano and Hannah Jones / Posted November 15, 2021 A Johns Hopkins engineer…
In her new book, science historian Sarah Richardson suggests that epigenetic studies implicitly emphasize the…
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During Mozambique’s 20-year civil war, due to intensive poaching, African elephant populations in Gorongosa National…
Upasna Sharma, assistant professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, received…
The rules of succession are meant to be simple. Daddy’s DNA mixes with mom’s DNA…
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Increased research and development activities, rapid increase in genetic testing, and favorable reimbursement policies regarding…
MIce that recovers from infection can impart stronger immunity to their future puppies, according to…
The The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded grants to researchers at the University of…
Epigenetic tags may not be passed from generation to generation, but research is unveiling new…
PHILADELPHIA – The National Institutes of Health has awarded grants to researchers at the Perelman…
A wheat leaf infested with the fungus Zymoseptoria tritici shows typical signs of so-called leaf…
Bianca Jones Marlin grew up in a home run by foster siblings on Long Island,…
Celia A. Schiffer, PhD, has accepted the position of chair of the new Department of…
Eva Jablonka is “one of the world’s foremost experts in epigenetic inheritance and evolution”, but…
Sidentical twins have a lot in common with each other. In a Dutch study published…
Healthy mom, healthy baby. Few would say that an expectant mother has the primary role…
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By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead America is in the midst of an epidemic…
TThirty-three American scientists are joining the ranks of researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,…
(Beyond pesticides, September 2, 2021) A study from McMaster University (Canada) shows that exposure to…
Saikat Majumdar, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, a private liberal arts…
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Most of us would admit to having had frantic thoughts in the middle of the…
Photo: Wakil Kohsar / AFP via Getty Images Another fleet of American planes abandon another…
Illumina has announced that the 2021 recipient of its Agricultural Greater Good grant is Dr…
Introduction Fragile X syndrome (FXS), OMIM # 300624, is a X-linked inherited genetic disease classified…
the COVIDThe -19 pandemic was a mass traumatic event, with lingering mental health effects that…
Detroit today, Nora Rhine Neuroscientist Dr Bianca Jones Marlin says that when we inherit trauma…
The characteristics of an organism emerge through complex interactions between its genetic makeup and the…
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July 30 (UPI) – All-female, invasive weevils transmit epigenetic changes to their offspring, helping them…
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Evidence suggests that what happens in a generation – diet, exposure to toxins, trauma, fear…
UMD researchers have found that the same gene to express a red fluorescent protein is…
For most organisms, genetic inheritance is the reason why offspring look like their parents. However,…
About one-third to two-thirds along the stem of a chromosome is a tight site called…