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5+ hour, 47+ min ago   (86+ words) In a discovery that offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of sex chromosomes caught in the act of being born, researchers in China have mapped the earliest stages of X and Y chromosome evolution in the darkbarbel catfish (Tachysurus…...

6+ hour, 6+ min ago   (104+ words) Variants in a single “master switch” gene called NR5A1 have long been known to disrupt male sexual development, but why one child is severely affected while another with a similar mutation escapes with milder features has remained one of the most…...

9+ hour, 3+ min ago   (916+ words) In the largest genetic investigation of its kind to date, an international team of researchers has mapped the genetic architecture of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, the most common autoimmune disease in the world, through multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses spanning tens of thousands…...

10+ hour, 32+ min ago   (756+ words) Genome-wide maps of chromatin interactions have transformed our understanding of how the genetic blueprint is organized inside the cell nucleus, but a fundamental question has remained surprisingly difficult to answer: how often, in any given cell, is a particular loop…...

13+ hour, 19+ min ago   (28+ words) Bioengineer.org Subject of Research: Biology Article Title: Molecular cartography of root nodule organogenesis: insights into the role of transcription factors...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (193+ words) The tiny helpers of marine sponges also use organic amino acids image: Figure 1: The bright yellow elephant ear sponge, called Ianthella basta, can be found across coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific Ocean including the Great Barrier Reef off the coast…...

15+ hour, 3+ min ago   (61+ words) Soybean farmers have long battled Phytophthora root rot, a devastating oomycete disease that destroys crops worldwide, but a new breakthrough from Chinese scientists may transform how growers fight back. A research team at China Agricultural University has developed an ingenious…...

15+ hour, 56+ min ago   (61+ words) Micro-expressions are the fleeting, involuntary facial movements that betray a person’s true emotional state in a fraction of a second, often lasting less than half a second and appearing on the face before any conscious attempt at suppression can take…...

18+ hour, 38+ min ago   (59+ words) In the arid highlands of northwestern China, the small red berry known as gouqi, or Lycii Fructus, has been prized for centuries as both a food and a traditional medicine, believed to support liver and kidney health, improve eyesight, and…...

23+ hour, 7+ min ago   (726+ words) Aging has long been framed as an irreversible decline, a one-way street at the cellular level. But a new study published in the journal Biogerontology suggests that at least some of the hallmarks of cellular aging may be negotiable....