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Acquired human mitochondrial genome deletions are symptoms and drivers of focal mitochondrial respiratory deficiency, a pathological hallmark of aging and late-onset...
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Chromatin regulates expression of small RNAs to help maintain transposon methylome homeostasis in Arabidopsis

1 hour ago | Genome Biology

Eukaryotic genomes are partitioned into euchromatic and heterochromatic domains to regulate gene expression and other fundamental cellular processes. However, chromatin is...
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Gut health startup Sun Genomics raises capital for personalized probiotics

13 hours ago | San Diego Biotechnology

Direct-to-consumer firm closes $9.25 million round to support its microbiome sequencing-based, customized probiotics...
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The qBED track: a novel genome browser visualization for point processes

17 hours ago | Oxford Journals

AbstractSummaryTransposon calling cards is a genomic assay for identifying transcription factor binding sites in both bulk and single cell experiments. Here we describe the...
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Genetic engineering of crops for insect resistance: An overview

1 day ago | Journal of Biosciences

Abstract Phytophagous insect incidence is a serious threat for reduction of crop productivity globally. There is an estimation of one fourth of crop is being destroyed by...
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Archaeal roots of intramembrane aspartyl protease siblings signal peptide peptidase and presenilin

1 day ago | Wiley

ABSTRACT Signal peptides help newly synthesized proteins reach the cell membrane or be secreted. As part of a biological process key to immune response and surveillance in...
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Replicating a genome starts with a twist, a pinch, and a bit of a dance

1 day ago | ScienceDaily

DNA replication begins with a set of proteins - the Origin of Replication Complex. Researchers published images of the human ORC in exquisite detail, showing how it changes...
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CRISPR-Cas9 Elucidates Seed Shattering Reduction during Rice Domestication

1 day ago | ISAAA

Researchers from the National Agricultural and Food Research Organization in Japan reported a mutation in OsSh1 causing non-shattering in a rice mutant cultivar using...
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Massive-scale Genomic Study of Almost 80,000 Accessions Reveals Wheat Diversity

1 day ago | ISAAA

Researchers have genetically characterized 79,191 samples of wheat from the germplasm banks of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center and the International Center...
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Research Reveals New Insights to Advance Cassava Breeding

1 day ago | ISAAA

Researchers at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and partners from the NextGen Cassava Breeding Project have uncovered new details about the genetic...
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World Biotechnology Congress 2019

Hilaris Conferences is going to host its premier World Biotechnology Congress 2019 during October 01-02, 2019, Valencia, Spain. Biotechnology 2019 Congress aim to create a... Read more ...

World Biotechnology Congress 2019

Hilaris Conferences is going to host its premier World Biotechnology Congress 2019 during October 01-02, 2019, Valencia, Spain. Biotechnology 2019 Congress aim to create a... Read more ...

2nd International Conference on Tissue Science and Regenerative Medicine

This conference is designed for experts in academia and industries working in the tissue science and regenerative field, this conference will examine cutting-edge research in... Read more ...

Securely Emerging into the Quality Nebula

Our Software Solutions Quality Document Management Success Written by: Candice Snine, Business Development Manager, PSC Biotech Quality Management in any industry is all about... Read more ...

Dyne's Upsized IPO Brings In $233M for Muscle Disorders Drug R&D

Dyne Therapeutics, a company developing genetic medicines for rare muscular disorders, has raised $233 million in an IPO that topped the preclinical-stage biotech's... Read more ...

BIO Chief: “Reckless” Executive Order on Drug Prices Threatens Innovation

The US is doing more in the COVID-19 space than anywhere in the world due to the strength of its innovative ecosystem, says Michelle McMurry-Heath, president & CEO of life... Read more ...

Finch Therapeutics Fetches $90M to Advance Microbiome Drug Pipeline

When Seres Therapeutics reported positive late-stage data for its experimental microbiome treatment last month, scientists at Finch Therapeutics cheered the results from the... Read more ...

How SARS-CoV-2 Went from Single Cases to Overwhelming Continents

Early detection and intervention stanched the first known introductions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus into North America and Europe, validating the effectiveness of quick... Read more ...

Arrowhead Pharma Shares Soar on Early Liver Data for RNAi Drug

An Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals drug for a rare liver disease now has early Phase 2 results and the data so far look good. Not only did the therapy reduce levels of a mutant... Read more ...

Easy and Affordable: Full-Length 16S HiFi Sequencing with PacBio Service...

Analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA has been used for phylogenetics and identifying prokaryotes for decades. But just as scientists have had to refine the Linnaean taxonomy system... Read more ...

Chromatin regulates expression of small RNAs to help maintain transposon...

Eukaryotic genomes are partitioned into euchromatic and heterochromatic domains to regulate gene expression and other fundamental cellular processes. However, chromatin is... Read more ...

Removing reference bias and improving indel calling in ancient DNA data...

During the last decade, the analysis of ancient DNA sequence has become a powerful tool for the study of past human populations. However, the degraded nature of aDNA means that... Read more ...

Bifrost: highly parallel construction and indexing of colored and compacted...

Memory consumption of de Bruijn graphs is often prohibitive. Most de Bruijn graph-based assemblers reduce the complexity by compacting paths into single vertices, but this is... Read more ...