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Scientists have created larger-than-usual strains of zooplankton — which are used in fish nurseries — by creating mutations with a heavy ion beam. The new strains of zooplankton could contribute to improving the survival rate and optimizing the growth of juvenile fish in aquaculture.

A regulator of circadian rhythms, known as CRY-1 has been shown to promote tumor progression by altering DNA repair.

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago report on a computational technique that uses heat map data to reverse engineer highly detailed models of chromosomes.

Mutations that occur in certain DNA regions, called tandem repeats, may play a significant role in autism spectrum disorders, according to new research.

A rare form of lymphoma called Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM), currently has no known cure and only one FDA-approved treatment. Researchers have now targeted specific cell proteins that control DNA information using inhibitors, that were effective in reducing the growth of the cancer cells. When combined with a third drug the combination was even more successful at killing the WM cancer cells.

Researchers report that they have solved a long-standing question of how various types of mutations in a single gene can cause different types of disease. Their findings were published in Life Science Alliance.

The intestines and their bacteria are sometimes called our "second brain", but studying these bacteria in their natural environment is difficult. Now, researchers have developed a method that uses artificial intelligence to map intestinal bacteria using feces.

Research has revealed new insight into the biological mechanisms of the long-term positive health effects of breastfeeding in preventing disorders of the immune system in later life.

Researchers have developed a blood test that could make it possible for doctors to detect — then quickly prevent or slow down — acute heart transplant rejection, a potentially deadly condition that occurs in the early months after a patient has received a donor heart.

Researchers show that in the heart, one molecule, Krϋppel-like factor (KLF)-5, single-handedly fuels both the generation of oxidizing molecules and the accumulation of toxic lipids known as ceramides in the heart, exacerbating heart dysfunction.