9+ hour, 49+ 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…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (546+ words) According to a team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Tongji University and collaborating institutions, weaning or switching from milk to solid food in early life doesn’t just change what babies eat, it helps reprogram the gut’s immune defenses…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (673+ words) Distinguishing between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia is often difficult since the two conditions share many biological traits. A team at King’s College London identified separate genetic pathways for each, finding that markers unique to schizophrenia drive cognitive decline while shared…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (512+ words) In large-scale proteomics, the volume of data generated makes manual validation of every spectrum impossible. Consequently, the field has adopted the target-decoy approach to estimate and control the false discovery rate (FDR) (Table 1). This involves searching the MS/MS spectra…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1198+ words) “Astrocytes are a type of cell that's found in the brain,” Foster explained. “They're very widely dispersed in all different kinds of mammals, certainly invertebrates, and they perform a lot of different functions. We call them astrocytes as a collective,…...