Tag: genetics
Cotton breeders are using genetic insights to make this global crop...
Serina Taluja, Texas A&M University
Products derived from the cotton plant show up in many items that people use...
How mRNA and DNA vaccines could soon treat cancers, HIV, autoimmune...
Deborah Fuller, University of Washington
The two most successful coronavirus vaccines developed in the U.S. – the Pfizer and...
Mixed-ancestry genetic research shows a bit of Native American DNA could...
Diane Xue, University of Washington and Hanley Kingston, University of Washington
Since the human genome was first mapped, scientists...
In fish, parents’ stressful experiences influence offspring behavior via epigenetic changes
Jennifer Hellmann, University of Dayton
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
3 medical innovations fueled by COVID-19 that will outlast the pandemic
Deborah Fuller, University of Washington; Albert H. Titus, University at Buffalo, and Nevan Krogan, University of California, San Francisco
COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates
Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences
As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt...
We discovered a missing gene fragment that’s shedding new light on...
Peter Koopman, The University of Queensland
It’s one of the most important genes in biology: “Sry”, the gene that makes males male. Development of the...
Brain scientists haven’t been able to find major differences between women’s...
Ari Berkowitz, University of Oklahoma
People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
