Trending News
News
News
Environmental Conditions Impact Offspring Health
Exposure to cold prior to conception causes the resulting offspring to have more brown adipose tissue, which protects against excess weight and metabolic disorders. Scientists studying mice have discovered that this information is passed on by the sperm, and there is a similar correlation in humans.
News
Unprecedented Details of Plant-Pathogen Co-evolution Revealed
The co-evolution of plant - pathogen interactions has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a study of one of the world’s deadliest crop killers. This is the rice blast pathogen, which destroys enough food to feed more than 60 million people every year – almost the population of the UK.
News
Single-Cell Sequencing Helps Understand Spiny Neurons
The complexity of the human brain presents scientists with immense challenges as they try to find new treatments for a host of diseases and conditions. But the advent of a new technology known as single-cell RNA sequencing is opening a window into how the brain works.
News
Lab Innovations 2018 – Registration Opens and Keynotes Announced
Learn and earn CPD points at the UK’s only lab-dedicated showcase and scientific seminar series.
News
Protein Complex that Shapes the Destiny of T Cells
Scientists report the protein complex mTORC1 serves as a bridge between environmental signals and metabolic programs to influence the fate of developing T cells.
News
Ancient Goat Genomes Reveal a Mosaic of Domestication
An international team of scientists, led by geneticists from Trinity, have sequenced the genomes from ancient goat bones from areas in the Fertile Crescent where goats were first domesticated around 8,500 BC. They reveal a 10,000-year history of local farmer practices featuring genetic exchange both with the wild and among domesticated herds, and selection by early farmers.
News
Supercoil Me! The Art of Knotted DNA Maintenance
Locking DNA knots in place thanks to DNA propensity to be supercoiled. A new study by SISSA suggests that is one of the mechanisms that could be harnessed by the cellular machinery to deal with those accidental entanglements that can compromise DNA
functionality.
functionality.
News
Whole Genome Sequencing is Contributing to Food Safety
EFSA has published two reports which provide a picture of how whole genome sequencing (WGS) can be used in food safety and how extensively such techniques are used in Europe.
News
Update to Ongoing Foodborne Listeria Outbreak
Frozen corn and possibly other frozen vegetables are the likely source of an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes that has been affecting Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom since 2015.
News
Mitochondria Flex Their DNA to Protect the Cell Against Stress
Researchers have discovered that transfer of vital genetic information within a cell isn’t the one-way telegraph once thought, opening new pathways for understanding human disease and developing potential treatments, a new study shows.
Advertisement