Precision gene editing is crucial for treating genetic diseases, as it enables targeted correction of specific mutations. A Korean research team has become the first in the world to significantly enhance the low efficiency of a key…
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Cleaner fish: Tiny healers or hidden spreaders in coral reef ecosystems?
Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare treatment? Coral reefs contain natural “beauty salons,” lively social hubs of activity where fish “clients” swim up and wait to be serviced by smaller fish cleaners. The little cleaners…
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Bitter ‘supertaster gene’ tied to bipolar disorder and poor kidney function
People who carry a bitter ‘supertaster gene’ have been linked to various health conditions including bipolar disorder and poor kidney function, University of Queensland researchers have found.
Using large-scale genome studies and…
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New open access tool could accelerate drug discovery
Scientists at Northwestern University have developed the largest open-access resource of its kind to help researchers shave off months of early-stage drug development time by allowing them to better understand diseases and find…
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Aging alters the response to CAR T cell therapy
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This is a summary of: Hope, H. C. et al. Age-associated nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide decline drives…
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The maize cis-regulatory landscape | Nature Genetics
Our knowledge about how non-coding genetic variation influences phenotypes in animals has deepened considerably in the last decade. However, plant research in this area has lagged behind. To help fill this gap, Robert Schmitz and colleagues…
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Stable isotopes unveil ocean transport of legacy mercury into Arctic food webs
Spatial trends in sources and pathways
In the peat profiles, Hg stable isotopes reveal significant spatial differences in δ202Hg signatures between Central West Greenland (Qeqertarsuaq) and Northeast Greenland (Zackenberg) (Fig. 1a, b;…
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Author Correction: Larval microbiota primes the Drosophila adult gustatory response
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate…
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Transcription factor binding divergence drives transcriptional and phenotypic variation in maize
Kim, S. & Wysocka, J. Deciphering the multi-scale, quantitative cis-regulatory code. Mol. Cell 83, 373–392 (2023).
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