• This tiny rice plant could feed the first lunar colony
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    In a bold step toward sustainable space travel, scientists are engineering a radically small, protein-rich rice that can grow in space. The Moon-Rice project, led by the Italian Space Agency in collaboration with three universities, aims...
  • It’s 12ft tall, covered in feathers and has been extinct for 600 years – can the giant moa bird really be resurrected?
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Genetics | The Guardian
    Colossal Bioscience is adding the extinct animal to its revival wishlist, joining the woolly mammoth, dodo and thylacine. But scepticism is growing Standing more than three metres (10ft) high, the giant moa is the tallest bird known to...
  • Researchers find genetic clues to infant formula pathogen's global persistence
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Researchers from the University of Maryland's Department of Nutrition and Food Science are shedding new light on how a dangerous food-borne pathogen—Cronobacter sakazakii—may have adapted to thrive in dried and powdered foods across the...
  • Genetics helps untangle the causes behind a rare and complex vascular disorder
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Our genes underlie all aspects of life, from our looks to how our cells behave. This includes diseases, as genetic changes can underlie the development and progression of certain health problems. This is true for arteriovenous...
  • Chromosomal abnormality scores unlock path to personalized immunotherapy
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    In a newly published article in Nature Genetics, researchers from the University of Chicago have identified tumor aneuploidy—an imbalance in the number of chromosomes—as a powerful biomarker associated with resistance to immunotherapy...
  • New method traces cancer cell evolution from a single tissue sample
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the formation of a malignant tumor.
  • A 'Google Maps' for tau movement sheds light on why some brain regions resist Alzheimer's
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    It's been recognized for some time that Alzheimer's disease affects brain regions differently and that tau—a protein known to misbehave—plays an important role in the disease. Normally, tau helps stabilize neurons, but in Alzheimer's...
  • Cellular signature explains why some prostate tumors resist standard treatments
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    A new study by University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center researchers identifies a cellular signature that explains why about one-third of prostate cancers respond especially poorly to treatment.
  • Genome editing enables mice to produce their own weight-loss drug for months
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Weight-loss drugs have surged in popularity, promising rapid results with regular injections. Now, researchers from Japan report a way for the body to make its own weight-loss drugs, doing away with injections in favor of a one-time...
  • Major autism study uncovers biologically distinct subtypes, paving the way for precision diagnosis and care
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Researchers at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation have identified four clinically and biologically distinct subtypes of autism, marking a transformative step in understanding the condition's genetic underpinnings and...
  • MIT scientists just supercharged the enzyme that powers all plant life
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    Scientists at MIT have turbocharged one of nature’s most sluggish but essential enzymes—rubisco—by applying a cutting-edge evolution technique in living cells. Normally prone to wasteful reactions with oxygen, this revamped bacterial...
  • Study uncovers key RNA-driven network behind colorectal cancer progression and immune response
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    A research team led by Prof. Gu Hongcang and Zhang Fan from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a novel long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)-driven regulatory network that plays a central...
  • Inhibitory neurons born later found to mature quicker during brain development
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    The human brain is made up of billions of nerve cells (neurons) that communicate with each other in vast, interconnected networks. For the brain to function reliably, there must be a fine balance between two types of signals: Excitatory...
  • Are chemicals to blame for cancer in young people? Here's what the evidence says
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Cancer is traditionally known as a disease affecting mostly older people.
  • What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors captured up-to-400-hertz tremors that falter under environmental stress, raising alarms for ecosystems and...
  • Biobank data helps explain why some individuals experience more side effects from antidepressants
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Researchers at the University of Tartu Institute of Genomics have gained a deeper understanding of why some people are more prone to experiencing side effects when taking antidepressants.
  • Twin study reveals that genetics largely influence how long infants cry
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    How much an infant cries is largely steered by their genetics, and there is probably not much that parents can do about it. This has been shown in a new Swedish twin study from Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet in which...
  • Eye cells 'rewire' themselves when vision begins to fail, study finds
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Scientists at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered that certain retinal cells can rewire themselves when vision begins to deteriorate in retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye disease...
  • CRISPR screening reveals new drug target for aggressive eye cancer
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    New research has found a novel target with therapeutic potential for metastatic eye melanoma—an aggressive eye cancer—with implications for a range of other cancers.
  • How a lost gene gave the sea spider its bizarre, leggy body
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in its legs and barely any abdomen—may be tied to a missing gene. The detailed DNA map shows this ancient creature...
  • Scientists starved worms — then discovered the switch that controls aging
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    Scientists have discovered that starving and then refeeding worms can reveal surprising secrets about aging. When a specific gene (called TFEB) is missing, these worms don’t bounce back from fasting—they instead enter a state that looks...
  • Incurable blood cancer tied to gene mutation in new lab model
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Researchers working on an incurable blood cancer can now use a new lab model that could make testing potential new treatments and diagnostics easier and quicker, new research has found.
  • The Guardian view on Labour’s NHS plan: it is right to celebrate medical science, but delivery is the hard part | Editorial
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Genetics | The Guardian
    Local clinics and technology could drive improvement if reorganisation doesn’t slow things down The NHS is a totemic institution in Labour’s history and that of the country, and voters care more about it than most things the government...
  • DNA markers linked to facial features in Iberian Peninsula population
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    An EHU study analyzing different genetic markers associated with facial features of the European population has shown a strong link between 10 of these markers and the facial morphology of people from the Iberian Peninsula. The...
  • Gene for enzyme in saliva associated with type 2 diabetes
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Nutrition scientists have been working to understand the relationship between type 2 diabetes and genes that express a salivary enzyme that breaks down starch, but many conflicting studies have led to few clear answers.
  • First large-scale stem cell bank enables worldwide studies on genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common, debilitating neurodegenerative disease affecting about 10% of people over the age of 65 and one third of people aged 85 and above. Besides environmental factors, the genes have a strong influence on...
  • Change trackers: New consortium to catalog DNA mutations across human lifetime
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health and well-being.
  • A single genetic mutation may have made humans more vulnerable to cancer than chimpanzees
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain immune cells in humans are less effective at fighting solid tumors compared to non-human primates. This insight...
  • The fatal mutation that lets cancer outsmart the human immune system
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    Scientists at UC Davis discovered a small genetic difference that could explain why humans are more prone to certain cancers than our primate cousins. The change affects a protein used by immune cells to kill tumors—except in humans,...
  • Alzheimer's-related protein found to drive lung cancer spread to brain
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Researchers at McMaster University, Cleveland Clinic and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how a protein long associated with Alzheimer's disease helps lung cancer spread to the brain—a discovery that offers hope that...
  • Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
  • Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic mutations that may contribute to the development of lung cancer in people with no or hardly any history of smoking.
  • Blood stem cell mutations linked to lower risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    A study published in Cell Stem Cell reveals that some mutations in blood stem cells might help protect against late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
  • Skeleton found in pot is first ancient Egyptian to undergo whole genome analysis
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Genetics | The Guardian
    Unusual burial of man, thought to have been a potter, in sealed vessel may have helped DNA survive past four millennia A man whose bones were shaped by a lifetime of hard labour more than 4,500 years ago has become the first ancient...
  • Gene therapy restores hearing in deaf patients
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Gene therapy can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment, a new study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet reports. Hearing improved in all 10 patients, and the treatment was...
  • Virtual reality software uncovers new details in pediatric heart tumors
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    New cutting-edge software developed in Melbourne can help uncover how the most common heart tumor in children forms and changes. And the technology has the potential to further our understanding of other childhood diseases, according to...
  • Gene signature of hepatic ferroptosis reveals its pathogenic features
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    By establishing an iron overload-induced hepatic ferroptosis model, scientists from Japan have identified iFerroptosis—an integrated gene signature for ferroptosis. They evaluated the associated genes in both mice and human liver injury...
  • Understanding the role of pigmentation in hereditary hearing loss
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Melanin can either protect or worsen hereditary hearing loss depending on genetic context, as reported by researchers from Japan. Using genetically engineered mice lacking the SLC26A4 gene, the researchers found that problems with...
  • Inhibiting enzyme could halt cell death in Parkinson's disease, study finds
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Genetics News
    Putting the brakes on an enzyme might rescue neurons that are dying due to a type of Parkinson's disease that's caused by a single genetic mutation, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study conducted in mice.
  • UK scientists to synthesise human genome to learn more about how DNA works
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Genetics | The Guardian
    Five-year SynHG project aims to pave way for next generation of medical therapies and treatment of diseases Researchers are embarking on an ambitious project to construct human genetic material from scratch to learn more about how DNA...
  • ‘Huge advances in cancer and rare diseases’: 25 years of the human genome – podcast
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Genetics | The Guardian
    It has been 25 years since Bill Clinton announced one of humanity’s most important scientific achievements: the first draft of the human genome. At the time, there was a great deal of excitement about the benefits that this new knowledge...
  • Scientists reprogram ant behavior using brain molecules
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn defenders into nurses or gardeners into leaf...
  • These frozen wolf cubs ate a woolly rhino—and changed what we know about dogs
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    Two Ice Age wolf pups once thought to be early dogs have been identified as wild wolves, thanks to detailed DNA and chemical analysis. Surprisingly, their last meals included woolly rhinoceros meat—an unusually large prey item—hinting...
  • From cursed tomb fungus to cancer cure: Aspergillus flavus yields potent new drug
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    In a remarkable twist of science, researchers have transformed a fungus long associated with death into a potential weapon against cancer. Found in tombs like that of King Tut, Aspergillus flavus was once feared for its deadly spores....
  • All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Genetics | The Guardian
    Newborns will have whole genome sequencing to enable personalised healthcare that predicts and prevents illness Every baby in England is to have a DNA screening to avoid fatal diseases and receive personalised healthcare as part of the...
  • David Hopkinson obituary
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Genetics | The Guardian
    My friend and former colleague David Hopkinson, who has died aged 89, was director of the Medical Research Council’s human biochemical genetics unit at University College London from 1976 until its closure in 2000. Hoppy, as he was...
  • Frozen in time: Transparent worms keep genes in sync for 20 million years
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    Even after 20 million years of evolutionary separation, two tiny worm species show astonishingly similar patterns in how they turn genes on and off. Scientists mapped every cell s activity during development and found that genes...
  • How life endured the Snowball Earth: Evidence from Antarctic meltwater ponds
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    During Earth's ancient Snowball periods, when the entire planet was wrapped in ice, life may have endured in tiny meltwater ponds on the surface of equatorial glaciers. MIT researchers discovered that these watery refuges could have...
  • Defying Darwin: Scientists discover worms rewrote their DNA to survive on land
    Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Genetics News
    New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an explosive genetic makeover when they...
  • DNA testing firm 23andMe fined £2.3m by UK regulator for 2023 data hack
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from Genetics | The Guardian
    Information stolen from US company included details of 150,000 British residents including family trees The genetic testing company 23andMe has been fined more than £2.3m for failing to protect the personal information of more than...
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