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Molecular & Computational biology 3 hours ago

Researchers discover key gene for toxic alkaloid in barley

All plants mediate their environmental interactions via chemical signals. An example is the alkaloid gramine produced by barley, one of the world's most widely-grown cereals. Gramine provides protection against herbivorous ...

Cell & Microbiology 3 hours ago

Memories of mitosis: Molecular mechanism that detects defects during cell division could aid cancer treatment

Every day, our cells are hard at work multiplying. Cell division is a precise process, but sometimes this process is impaired and diseases like cancer occur. Mitosis is one of the most important phases in the cell cycle. ...

Archaeology 6 hours ago

DNA study IDs descendants of George Washington from unmarked remains

New DNA sequencing technologies have identified the historical remains of George Washington's grandnephews, Samuel Walter Washington and George Steptoe Washington Jr., and their mother, Lucy Payne Washington, from unmarked, ...

Molecular & Computational biology Mar 27, 2024

Sweet success: Researchers crack sugarcane's complex genetic code

Modern hybrid sugarcane is one of the most harvested crops on the planet, used to make products including sugar, molasses, bioethanol, and bio-based materials. It also has one of the most complex genetic blueprints.

Evolution Mar 22, 2024

Decoding the shared genetic toolkit for male sex determination

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have broken new ground by demonstrating that an HMG-box gene in brown algae is crucial for determining male sex. This breakthrough significantly expands our ...

Plants & Animals Mar 22, 2024

Research unravels the enigma of curly birch and suggests marker to recognize it at the sprout stage

Curly—or Karelian—birch is a mysterious tree with a patterned wood texture and a bizarre trunk shape. Unlike the elegant white-stemmed traditional birch, the Karelian one may seem unsightly at first glance: It is a low-growing, ...

Biotechnology Mar 21, 2024

Scientists create novel technique to form human artificial chromosomes

Human artificial chromosomes (HACs) capable of working within human cells could power advanced gene therapies, including those addressing some cancers, along with many laboratory applications, though serious technical obstacles ...

Plants & Animals Mar 20, 2024

Decoding the Easter Bunny: Eastern Finnish brown hare represents standard for species' genome

The Hare Research Group at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, has published a chromosomally assembled reference genome for the European brown hare. Reference genomes represent ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 20, 2024

Tracking and tracing members of the plant microbiome with DNA barcodes

A research team led by Paul Schulze-Lefert from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, developed a modular toolkit for tracking bacterial strains colonizing plant tissue in competition with ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 20, 2024

New tuberculosis study offers a novel paradigm for understanding bacterial transcription

The bacterium behind tuberculosis is a wily foe, adept at bobbing and weaving around the immune system and antibiotics alike. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has been notoriously difficult to eradicate, often dormant in ...

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