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Divers in the Bajau community of Indonesia spend up to 60 percent of their working day underwater, and their spleens are about 50 percent larger than those of farming neighbours, with a single gene variant linked to the difference
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (279+ words) A portable ultrasound machine, hauled into a village on the eastern arm of Sulawesi, is the instrument at the center of this story. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 22, 2026 · How we edit That result reframes a familiar…...
A 5,700-year-old lump of chewed birch tar dug up on a Danish island gave up the complete genome of the woman who chewed it, along with her dark skin, blue eyes, and the duck and hazelnuts she had eaten
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (183+ words) A speck of ancient chewed tar has yielded the complete genetic blueprint of a Stone Age woman, revealing not just her DNA but her appearance, diet, and the intimate details of her last meal. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin…...
Tree vaccines and gene-edited butterflies among biotechnology projects funded by UK ‘invention agency’ - AOL
17+ hour, 16+ min ago (622+ words) Vaccines for ash trees, skin treatments for newts and gene-edited swallowtail butterflies are among 14 tax-funded projects from the UK’s “invention agency” aiming to accelerate nature’s ability to adapt to the climate crisis. The £54m accelerated adaptation programme from the UK’s Advanced…...
AI tool compares 125 cell types across 700 million years of evolution
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Flatworm Genetics Reveal Blueprint for Neural Regeneration
8+ hour, 11+ min ago (529+ words) University of Georgia researchers have identified nearly a dozen genes that allow planarian flatworms to regenerate dopamine-producing neurons and rebuild their brains after injury. The discovery offers a molecular roadmap that could eventually inform regenerative therapies for Parkinson’s disease and…...
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5q31 duplications encompassing PURA are associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder | European Journal of Human Genetics
4+ hour, 24+ min ago (609+ words) European Journal of Human Genetics (2026) Cite this article PURA is a single-exon gene located at 5q31 that encodes the PURA protein [20], a member of the Pur family that includes four protein members: Pur-α (PURA), Pur-β (PURB), and two isoforms of Pur-γ…...
C. elegans [IMAGE] | EurekAlert! Science News Releases
7+ hour, 17+ min ago (47+ words) C. elegans (IMAGE) EurekAlert! The tiny roundworm C. elegans, shown here as a male, helps Rutgers researchers trace how a genetic change linked to kidney disease affects proteins inside cells. More on this News Release A tiny worm helps scientists unravel a…...
Intelligent Design Bears Good Scientific Fruit in the Study of ‘Junk DNA’
6+ hour, 49+ min ago (141+ words) For decades, many scientists have confidently dismissed the vast majority of the human DNA as useless evolutionary garbage. Yet a recently published scientific paper in Cell, one of the world’s most prestigious biology journals, declares a “paradigm shift” against the…...
A drop of salt water solved a 100-bit computation by letting billions of DNA molecules compete until the configuration encoding the correct answer won
6+ hour, 21+ min ago (1418+ words) A scaffolded DNA computer in a 35-microliter magnesium-buffered droplet used molecular competition to make the low-energy configuration encode the answer to a 100-bit calculation. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 22, 2026 · How we edit A 35-microliter droplet containing…...