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What Makes Shoolini’s B Tech Bioinformatics Stand Out?
10+ hour, 46+ min ago (757+ words) Research from the first year, faculty guidance on scientific projects, and support to develop patentable ideas make B Tech Bioinformatics at Shoolini a unique program. With a strong combination of biology, programming and data analysis, students build a solid foundation…...
AI Model Flags Which Food-Allergic Babies Will Develop Asthma by School Age
3+ hour, 27+ min ago (655+ words) A prospective study of 447 food-allergic infants reports a cost-sensitive ensemble model that predicts school-age asthma with an AUC of 0.886 and zero missed cases using routine clinical data collected before age two....
Hidden Peptides in Tomato MicroRNAs Revealed by New Gene Catalogue
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (58+ words) Researchers have catalogued 107 candidate microRNA-encoded peptides in tomato, revealing a distinctive positively charged biochemical signature and conservation patterns tied closely to plant evolutionary distance. Article Title: Transcription start site aware catalogue of microRNA encoded peptides in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) News…...
HHMI and Dartmouth map 1.3 million mouse embryonic cell lineages with ‘DNA typewriter’
23+ hour, 5+ min ago (591+ words) New DNA recording technology traces developmental paths from a single zygote to a fully formed body and distinguishes founder cells in 99% of embryonic cells A map has been created that reveals how cells are related to one another from the…...
Bacteria Navigate Crowded Environments by Colliding
15+ hour, 47+ min ago (546+ words) 2026 EPFL/Laure Le Blanc - CC-BY-SA 4.0 Some bacteria can sense when they bump into each other and use these interactions to shape how the group organizes and moves. This discovery reveals a new way microbes explore their environments using physical feedback…...
Jonathan the Tortoise: 287 Gene Variants and a Stable Epigenome Explain His 194-Year Life
13+ hour, 36+ min ago (772+ words) Genetic analysis of Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, reveals 287 protective gene variants and an unusually stable epigenome that together explain his record-breaking longevity....
Scientists uncover the molecular switch that reshapes aging muscle
17+ hour, 16+ min ago (727+ words) University of Copenhagen researchers found that declining cardiolipin in mitochondria triggers an ERRγ-driven, ROS-mediated switch that trades muscle power for antioxidant protection, a process that may be druggable....
Fungal Duo Slashes Pepper Blight by 90 Percent While Rewiring Soil Microbiome
17+ hour, 47+ min ago (667+ words) Two strains of the beneficial fungus Trichoderma harzianum reduced red pepper Phytophthora blight incidence by 90.9 percent while promoting plant growth by boosting antioxidant enzyme activity and reshaping the rhizosphere microbiome....
Fruit fly brain study reveals how working memory is written and switched off
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (657+ words) Researchers at NYU Langone Health have shown that fruit flies store short-term odor memories in a gated split attractor network of PFG and hΔK neurons, revealing a mechanism for working memory....
180 Early-Career Scientists Win $12.5 Million in Grants to Tackle Mental Illness
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (585+ words) The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation has awarded more than $12.5 million in two-year grants to 180 early-career scientists selected from 993 applications to advance research on depression, schizophrenia, and other brain and behavior disorders....