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Study Reveals How Plants Detect When to Grow or Pause
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (360+ words) Plants build organs by coordinating “initiation” and “growth,” but how one signal can drive two opposite outcomes has been unclear. A new study reveals a timed hormone handoff that allows plants to first suppress an architecture-promoting pathway and then activate…...
Nuclear Escape Accelerates as Stress Builds Inside the Atomic Nucleus
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (395+ words) Under prolonged stretch, epithelial tissues can’t simply “hold on”—they remodel. A new Nature Physics study from IBEC reveals how cells respond to mechanical stress lasting hours or days by reorganizing their keratin cytoskeleton into large multicellular networks, ultimately changing…...
Paper Concealed Death of 6-Year-Old Daughter...Controversy over Gene-Editing Clinical Trial in China
7+ hour, 53+ min ago (244+ words) Published 28 Jul.2026 09:10(KST) A prominent Chinese scholar has come under fire after it was revealed that he published a paper in an international academic journal without disclosing the death of a six-year-old patient during a brain gene-editing clinical trial. The…...
Scientists Discover Deepest Marine Ecosystem Under Pacific Ocean
12+ hour, 17+ min ago (250+ words) sekbernews.id Researchers from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Sciences uncovered the deepest animal ecosystem ever recorded, reaching depths down to 9,533 meters in the Kuril-Kamchatka and western Aleutian Trenches Operating from China's crewed…...
Recombinase-Based Genome Mapping Enables Large-Scale Structure Profiling of
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (344+ words) A new protocol promises to turn the static architecture of mammalian genomes into something far more experimentally tractable. Understanding how genome structure shapes gene regulation and cellular behavior has long been a central goal of functional genomics, but existing approaches…...
Transformative embryo research: Who gets to contribute? | PET
15+ hour, 34+ min ago (391+ words) The study, published in Nature, uses base editing (see BioNews 848, 924, 1035 and 1285) to investigate the role of the gene NANOG in the earliest stages of human development. Named after Tír na nÓg, the mythical Celtic 'Land of the Young', NANOG was…...
Base editing in human embryos: Why patient voices matter | PET
15+ hour, 34+ min ago (352+ words) In our recent study published in Nature, my colleagues and I make use of novel genome editing techniques to better understand human embryology (see BioNews 1345 and 1349). There has already been speculation about the future applications of this work, but any…...
DSS Takara Bio offers advanced genomics solutions to support India's growing IVF ecosystem
18+ hour, 23+ min ago (271+ words) The Indo-Japan venture aims to support IVF laboratories and fertility centres in improving the accuracy, reliability, and consistency of genomic testing, contributing to the continued evolution of India's assisted reproduction ecosystem DSS Takara Bio India is strengthening support for reproductive…...
Opto-thermo-osmotic technique enables programmable rotation of single cells
11+ hour, 42+ min ago (317+ words) A team has unveiled a method that can rotate individual living cells around any chosen axis—without the need for mechanical micro-parts. Reported in Light: Science & Applications, the approach combines light-driven forces with heat and fluidic effects to exert a…...
Tracking Cathie Wood: Slashing AtaiBeckley and Figma, Betting on Gene-Editor Scribe Therapeutics
23+ hour, 10+ min ago (14+ words) Moomoo...