14+ hour, 34+ min ago   (663+ words) For decades, neuroscientists have marveled at the sheer speed of communication in the brain, and much of that speed depends on a single family of proteins known as AMPA receptors....

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (787+ words) When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry’s office at Bangor University in Wales on 20 October 1980, he had no idea that the encounter would define the next four and a half decades of his scientific life....

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (747+ words) A team of computational geneticists and epidemiologists has unveiled a cloud-based workflow that promises to strip away one of the most persistent barriers in precision medicine: the sheer difficulty of analyzing whole-genome sequencing data at scale, reproducibly, and without access…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (286+ words) TALLAGHT University Hospital’s Microbiology Department has been named in the top five department sustainable laboratory operations in the world. The local Microbiology Department on the local hospital campus was awarded fifth place in the Large Hospital/Clinical Laboratory category of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (55+ words) A previously unrecognized layer of genome organization has been identified in the mammalian brain, where exceptionally long genes and the enormous enhancers that regulate them assemble into a distinct nuclear territory. The discovery, reported in Nature Cell Biology, suggests that…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (456+ words) Rangahau me te auahatanga Research and innovation Politics and law, Science and technology, Faculty of Science Commentary: As Parliament prepares to rewrite NZ’s outdated gene laws, the missing bioethics oversight leaves critical questions unaddressed argues Lauren Baal. “I don’t know…...