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AI-designed nucleases build on nature’s design
24+ min ago (405+ words) Researchers used AI to create variants of a CRISPR-Cas12-like nuclease, some of which show increased editing activity Artificial intelligence is already great at predicting how proteins fold. And soon, AI might become great at designing new proteins from scratch....
SpaceBio Knowledge Hub: A LiteratOmics Platform for Microgravity and Space Biology Research
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (458+ words) Astrobiology Web Our work also introduces LiteratOmics, a new framework that combines literature mining, natural language processing, and AI to transform scientific publications into structured, searchable, and interconnected knowledge. The platform supports researchers, educators, students, and citizen scientists while promoting…...
Genome Editing Boosts a Traditional Herb’s Potential
10+ hour, 26+ min ago (376+ words) From traffic lights to fashion trends, changing from red to green can signal much more than a shift in color. Now, Hiroshima University researchers have shown that the same is true for perilla. Using genome editing, they transformed red perilla…...
Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind
4+ hour, 46+ min ago (1226+ words) Martin Picard, director of the Mitochondrial Psychobiology Lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, has placed the energetic organelles at the center of his model for health and consciousness. A mitochondrion (orange) contains intricately folded structures, called cristae, that maximize…...
Echoes in the earth: how microbiomes help plants remember and resist - Nature Reviews Microbiology
5+ hour, 34+ min ago (157+ words) Nature Reviews Microbiology (2026) Cite this article In this Genome Watch, we explore how the ecological memory of microbiomes shapes transgenerational stress resilience in plants. Liang, S. et al. Climate-influenced ecological memory modulates microbial response to soil moisture. Glob. Change Biol. 31, e70099 (2025). Jobert,…...
Genome Editing Boosts Health Potential of Perilla Herb
21+ hour, 14+ 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
12+ hour, 10+ 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
12+ hour, 55+ 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
1+ day, 4+ hour 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.
1+ day, 1+ hour 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…...