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Can cows create insulin? Transgenic cow opens doors for sustainable human insulin production
Researchers have successfully developed the world's first transgenic cow capable of producing human insulin in her milk.
The iterative science and engineering model (ISE)
Solving STEM challenges requires deep engagement with phenomena. Interdisciplinary STEM discoveries often advance through a fluid and messy process where scientists and engineers toggle between scientific investigation, problem generation, and engineering design to generate multiple solutions that are shared with and evaluated by others.
Europe takes a step towards gene-edited crops despite patent debate
The European Parliament voted to ease regulatory oversights on crops created through gene editing, which significantly departed from its longstanding suspicion towards genetically engineered organisms.
Changing the lives of people with hereditary angioedema through gene editing therapy
The lives of those who live with hereditary angioedema, a rare genetic disorder causing severe and unpredictable swelling attacks, may be transformed.
Skin cancer mutation offers hope for healing broken hearts
Is there a way to mend a broken heart? Biomedical engineers have found a potential way to mend a broken heart using a genetic mutation commonly associated with skin cancers.
How does our diet and lifestyle affect our hair growth?
According to hair stylists, 68% of women are unhappy about their hair. How women feel about our hair correlates strongly with our feelings. The most common complaints are that our hair is 'too dry', 'it's falling out', or it 'grows too slowly'.
Do electric eels have the power to drive genetic modification?
Electric eels are renowned for their ability to generate up to 860 volts of electricity, a power potential previously harnessed to run machines.
Genetic link between microglia and Alzheimer’s disease inflammation
Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, have unveiled a pivotal connection between genetic changes in microglia, immune-regulating brain cells, and the inflammatory response associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Reducing non-human primate sacrifice for brain research in the virtual era
Non-Human primates (NHPs) continue to be fundamentally necessary to advance our understanding of the human brain, from its molecular and cellular make up all the way to its systems architecture and how all these mesmerizing components give rise to behavior. This necessity is not changing. It is the curiosity and effort of the human brain to understand itself.
Functional Immune Repertoire Analysis
Functional Immune Repertoire Analysis: Finding novel ways to measure, understand and advance vaccine-mediated protection towards personalized vaccination strategies.
The connection between genetic risks, Autism, ADHD, and screen time in children
Researchers at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan examined screen time in autistic (ASD) and ADHD children.
UC Davis Department of Molecular Biosciences
The Department of Molecular Biosciences serves as the academic home for all nutritional, physiological chemistry, and pharmacologic and toxicologic programs of the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis.
The goal of the Department of Molecular Biosciences is to study fundamental biological processes and their perturbations by mutations, nutrition, drugs...
Leveraging genomic data for effective pandemic preparedness and response
Decoding pathogens’ genetic material is fast becoming an invaluable tool to support pandemic preparedness and responses to global public health threats, Anona Bamford tells us more
Dr. Martins-Green: Advancing wound healing research and cell biology
Dr. Martins-Green is the Professor of Cell Biology in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology at the University of California, Riverside, where she works to uncover more about chronic wounds and their basic cell and molecular mechanisms.
Emerging Rainbow Rice: New paradigm in biofortified foods
Rainbow Rice originated from comprehensive cross-breeding between a rare white-stripe leaf mutant and a dark purple leaf rice for a decorative purpose; however it has become a new model for biofortified foods and agrotourism.
DNA breakthrough reveals genetic diversity of invasive fish
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is unveiling the genetic diversity of invasive fish, revolutionising conservation efforts.
Ancient plant DNA found in 2,900 year old clay brick thanks to Oxford researchers
Through deep analysis, Oxford researchers have extracted ancient plant DNA remnants from a 2,900-year-old clay brick helping the team investigate ancient vegetation.
Multiple sclerosis: A debilitating disease, but new treatments offer hope
Rhett Reichard, PhD and Keri C. Smith, PhD from Saba University School of Medicine, says that while multiple sclerosis is a debilitating disease, new treatments offer hope.
From the empirical to the causal molecular: Understanding biology and genetics
From empiricist to causal molecular understanding of life and back: Historical reflections on 19th and 21st-century epistemologies in biology
The German American physiologist and experimental biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) was one of the most vigorous promoters of biology as an experimental science in the 19th century. Influenced by the physicist...
RNA editing allows octopuses to adjust to cold temperatures
Researchers reveal how octopuses utilise RNA editing to alter their protein function, allowing them to acclimatise faster when encountering low temperatures
Animals' ability to adapt to their environment never fails to surprise scientists, and octopuses are no different.
Focusing on genetics, researchers explain that each cell comes with a finite set...