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1+ hour, 6+ min ago  (96+ words) In a groundbreaking development for infectious disease surveillance, researchers have unveiled Phylo-Plex, an innovative amplicon sequencing platform that promises to revolutionize genomic epidemiology. This new technology harnesses phylogenetic insights to deliver high-resolution genomic data at a fraction of the traditional…...

22+ hour, 47+ min ago  (410+ words) Scientists at the University of Minnesota say they have built the most life-like synthetic cell yet, creating a laboratory-made system assembled entirely from nonliving components that can grow, replicate its genetic material, divide and even pass beneficial traits to future…...

10+ hour, 26+ min ago  (345+ words) Ancient Neuropeptides Link Nutrition to Alloparental Care in Ants A groundbreaking study has unveiled how ancient neuropeptides, originally involved in feeding regulation, have been co-opted to govern parental care behaviors in ants. This scientific advance sheds light on the intricate…...

1+ day, 55+ min ago  (150+ words) [biorxiv. org] Saturation mutagenesis is a powerful tool for understanding and engineering the function of biological systems, and has been applied successfully to characterize the mutational landscape of individual proteins and genetic loci. However, it has not been applied at…...

16+ hour, 30+ min ago  (546+ words) Why would a tiny tissue sample from a rat's knee hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of chronic jaw pain? The question is not as bizarre as it sounds. Temporomandibular disorders, a group of more than 30 conditions causing pain…...

17+ hour, 14+ min ago  (544+ words) image: The team used a labelled version of a protein that regulates stem thickness. This helped them to understand the role of this protein indeterminingthe orientation of cell division view more Research has shed intriguing new light on the genetics…...

22+ hour, 29+ min ago  (290+ words) A new genetic screening method allows researchers to efficiently modulate individual genes across entire tissues and provides new insights into human development. The research, published previously as a Reviewed Preprint in e Life and appearing today as the final Version…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (61+ words) (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Student sampling microbes from a Christmas tree. Giulia Ghisleni and Antonia Bruno Credit must be given to the creator. Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted. No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted. More…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1688+ words) Nature (2026) Cite this article UCE is trained in a fully self-supervised manner, without using any cell type or dataset-based annotations. While incorporating cell type labels into the model design or training could seem advantageous, it is preferable for the organization…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (612+ words) Research has shed intriguing new light on the genetics underlying the diverse plant organ shapes we see in agriculture and nature. Despite more than a century of scientific investigation into the role of inner and outer tissues, there is still…...