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Your Jawbone Could Reveal Your Sex With Over 90 Percent Accuracy, New Study
11+ hour, 45+ min ago (84+ words) When forensic investigators recover human remains, one of the first and most fundamental questions they must answer is simple to ask but often difficult to answer: was this person male or female? A new study published in the International Journal…...
Cicada Genomes Decoded to Safeguard a Traditional Medicine’s Future
15+ hour, 38+ min ago (55+ words) In the world of traditional Chinese medicine, few raw materials are as quietly ubiquitous as Cicadae Periostracum, the papery slough that cicadas abandon when they molt from nymph to adult. For centuries, this discarded exoskeleton has been prescribed for sore…...
Collagen Switch Turns Fish Fins Into Limb-Like Structures
18+ hour, 35+ min ago (83+ words) When the first fish lineage crawled onto land some 375 million years ago, its fins had to be remodeled into limbs capable of bearing weight. Evolutionary biologists have long focused on the genes that pattern the skeleton—Hox clusters, Sonic hedgehog,…...
New Rust Toolkit Supercharges Sex Determination Studies in Non-Model
19+ hour, 45+ min ago (628+ words) A new open-source software package promises to transform how biologists hunt for the genetic switches that separate males from females in species with no reference genome....
Enzymes and Fermentation Team Up to Strip Bad Flavors from Mealworm Protein
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (675+ words) Edible insects have been heralded as one of the most sustainable protein sources on the planet, but there has always been an awkward catch: many people simply do not like the way they smell or taste....
How a Single Gene Decides Whether a Wax Gourd Grows Long or Round
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (327+ words) | Newswise Newswise How a Single Gene Decides Whether a Wax Gourd Grows Long or Round Proposed model for BhSUN-mediated regulation of fruit shape in wax gourd. Newswise — Wax gourd is a widely cultivated cucurbit crop valued for its culinary and…...
Ants transport tardigrades to new shelters, revealing a surprising
1+ week, 6+ day ago (916+ words) Few organisms on Earth enjoy the celebrity status of tardigrades. The eight-legged microscopic animals better known as water bears can survive the vacuum of space, endure near-absolute-zero temperatures and shrug off radiation doses that would kill most life forms....
Night Shift: Scientists Decode Clubroot Gene Activity After Dark
2+ week, 10+ hour ago (130+ words) The Parasite That Works the Night Shift: Clubroot Disease Rewires Crop Plants After Dark Every night, as sunlight fades and photosynthesis grinds to a halt, plants quietly reconfigure their metabolic machinery, shifting resources toward growth, repair, and defense. New research…...
Single-cell RNA sequencing maps gonadal changes during sex reversal in
2+ week, 5+ day ago (606+ words) A single-cell transcriptomic study of the orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus coioides, is offering an unprecedented view of how a fish gonad reorganizes itself during hormone-induced sex reversal. The research focuses on a remarkable biological system: this species is a protogynous hermaphrodite,…...
Scientists Created Females and Restarted Sexual Reproduction using a Single Male Mouse
2+ week, 6+ day ago (596+ words) They created fertile female mice from cells carrying the male genome. How many parents does it take to make a family? According to a new study, just one. In a striking experiment, researchers in Japan used cells from male mice…...