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Genome Editing Boosts Health Potential of Perilla Herb
11+ hour, 41+ min ago (454+ words) SFL Educational News Service The Core Concept: Hiroshima University researchers successfully used CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to disrupt the flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H) gene in red perilla (Perilla frutescens), creating a green-leafed variant with a significantly altered metabolic profile. Branch of Science: Genetics,…...
Body Detects Temperature Shifts: How Warm and Cool Signals Are Sensed
2+ hour, 37+ min ago (337+ words) A new study is upending a long-held idea about how the nervous system reads temperature. Researchers at the University of Queensland report that most skin thermoreceptor cells do not specialize exclusively in either cooling or warming. Instead, the same thermoreceptors…...
Timing Regenerative Signals Determines Healing Outcomes After Injury
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (357+ words) Medicine has long aimed to deliver the right therapeutic signals to the right tissue at the right moment. New University of Oregon research suggests that regenerative outcomes may hinge not only on which growth factors are delivered, but also on…...
Supernova Neutrinos And The Origin of Biomolecular Homochirality
19+ hour, 20+ min ago (195+ words) We introduce neutrino interactions into the autocatalytic chemical reactions in a far-from-equilibrium noise-induced system. These interactions create a directional bias between L and D enantiomers in the racemization reactions, which is amplified by autocatalysis and stochastic fluctuations. Chemical scheme of…...
Terminal Brain Cancer Has Killed Kids for Decades. Four Survived This Cell Therapy Trial.
15+ hour, 56+ min ago (287+ words) TAA-T therapy skips gene editing entirely, instead selecting and multiplying T cells that already recognise tumour proteins. Think of it as casting a wider net instead of throwing a single spear. The ReMIND trial's results are preliminary but striking, particularly…...
TSPAN7 Builds Transmembrane Skeleton, Stabilizing Tubular Membranes via
11+ hour, 25+ min ago (328+ words) Tetraspanins are four-transmembrane proteins best known for organizing cell membranes into specialized microdomains that recruit lipids and partner proteins. Over the past few years, several tetraspanins have also been shown to form ordered polymer assemblies, raising the possibility that these…...
Genome Editing Reinvents Perilla, Boosting Potential of Traditional Herb
12+ hour, 46+ min ago (257+ words) Traffic lights aren’t the only things that can shift from red to green. A team at Hiroshima University reports that the color of perilla can be reprogrammed using CRISPR-Cas9—while also rewiring the plant’s underlying chemical machinery. The result is…...
Off Target: Reporting on Human Embryo Gene Editing: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
17+ hour, 6+ min ago (324+ words) That hardening is already happening with the new embryo gene editing protocol. Media outlets have described it as enabling meticulous and precise gene editing in embryos. Such language implies that heritable human genome editing is – or soon will be – safe....
Bacteria Form Herds To Survive Predators, Offering Fresh Insight Into Earth's Carbon Cycle
18+ hour, 50+ min ago (257+ words) The research helps explain a long-standing biological mystery: why cyanobacteria invest energy in forming flocs despite the apparent cost to their growth. The findings suggest the behaviour is an evolved defense mechanism that could have implications extending from microbial ecology…...
What Animals Do Before Going to War
13+ hour, 38+ min ago (432+ words) Intergroup conflict is common across the animal kingdom, shaping how social species survive and reproduce. A new review in Trends in Ecology & Evolution argues that many animals do not simply respond after a fight begins. Instead, they run a hidden…...