1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (651+ words) Long-lived bats appear to combine powerful immune defenses with unusual strategies for eliminating damaged cells, potentially helping them avoid cancer and disease for decades. Researchers hope these genetic tricks could eventually reveal new ways to protect human health during aging....

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1294+ words) In the mosses and lichens of the world – the in-between places, where living conditions rapidly fluctuate – lives a tiny animal with an extraordinary survival skill. No, not tardigrades – it's their much weirder housemate, the bdelloid rotifer. Just like tardigrades, bdelloid…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (483+ words) Tiny Ions Help DNA Overcome Repulsion Professor Agnes Noy, from the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology at the University of York, co-led the research. She said: "This discovery could help researchers identify regions of the genome specially involved in…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (212+ words) BioCompute wants to store the world's cold data in DNA. Its contrarian bet is that reusing the medium, not manufacturing it, is how the cost finally comes down. And it has the early numbers to back the claim. Anagha Rajesh,…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (356+ words) The first comprehensive atlas of DNA’s physical properties reveals how its sequence shapes genome regulation and evolution. image: The hexABC atlas analyses all 4,096 possible DNA hexamers—corresponding to 2,080 unique sequences—to determine how sequence shapes DNA structure and dynamics, classify…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (228+ words) Researchers have captured the moment two DNA molecules zip together, overcoming their identical negative charges to pair up, solving a mechanism that has puzzled scientists for more than 20 years. Using high-powered atomic force microscopy, scientists at the University of Sheffield…...

4+ day, 31+ min ago   (645+ words) Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas predicts the effects of 9 billion DNA variants, helping researchers identify mutations linked to disease. Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaGenome Atlas, an artificial intelligence-powered resource that predicts the biological effects of all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (752+ words) MIT researchers have engineered bacteria to behave like transistors, making it possible to build living “circuit boards” that can be printed onto growth material in a Petri dish. In conventional electronics, transistors act as switches that control whether electrical current…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (37+ words) | Tool was trained on human and mouse genome data | Inshorts Inshorts Google unveils AI tool that can map 9 billion changes in human DNA...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (638+ words) New Zealand chemist Orson Wedgwood cites protein odds and chicken-and-egg loops, but 2024 Salk RNA research tests the very steps he calls impossible His credentials are solid. He holds a PhD in organic medicinal chemistry, is based in New Zealand, and…...