Category: 5. Biology

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  • How and when organisms edit their own genomes

    How and when organisms edit their own genomes

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  • Charting human hematopoiesis to understand B cell leukemia

    Charting human hematopoiesis to understand B cell leukemia

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  • Paietta, E. et al. Blood 138, 948–958 (2021).

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  • Harnessing saliva for precision medicine and early disease diagnosis

    Harnessing saliva for precision medicine and early disease diagnosis

    A research team led by the University of the Basque Country (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, EHU) has identified hundreds of molecular markers in saliva that could reveal the risk of a person developing major diseases such as cancer,…

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  • A New Blood Test May Detect Leukemia Risk and Replace Bone Marrow Sampling – Life Sciences | Weizmann Wonder Wander

    A New Blood Test May Detect Leukemia Risk and Replace Bone Marrow Sampling – Life Sciences | Weizmann Wonder Wander

    What if a blood test could reveal the pace of our aging – and the diseases that may lie ahead? The labs of Profs. Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay at the Weizmann Institute of Science have been conducting in-depth studies into the biology of blood…

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  • Shockingly large extinct possum uncovered in Texas

    Shockingly large extinct possum uncovered in Texas

    Around 60 million years ago, a large species of Swaindelphys—extinct…

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  • Yeast cell division found to begin inside the nucleus

    Yeast cell division found to begin inside the nucleus

    Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the ‘pacemaker’ controlling yeast cell division lies inside the nucleus rather than outside it, as previously thought. Having the pacemaker in the same compartment as the…

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  • Can these endangered lizards beat the heat? Scientists test bold relocation plan

    Can these endangered lizards beat the heat? Scientists test bold relocation plan

    Climate change and habitat loss are affecting animal populations around the world and reptiles such as South Australia’s own endangered pygmy bluetongue are susceptible to higher temperatures and declining long-term rainfall trends.

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  • City living is changing rodent skulls in Chicago

    City living is changing rodent skulls in Chicago

    Tiny rodents living in a major American city are unique examples of evolution…

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