Genetics

Researchers solve an 80-year-old medical mystery that causes kidney damage in children

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Researchers at the University of East Anglia have solved an 80-year-old medical mystery that causes kidney damage in children and can be fatal in children. People with this condition cannot properly metabolize vitamin D, which causes calcium to build up in the blood and leads to kidney damage and kidney stones. This led to a … Read more

Managing Tar Spot with Genetics and Fungicides – AgriNews

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Johnston, Iowa – In just seven years, corn tar spot disease in the United States has grown from a relatively minor disease with little economic impact to a major crop-stealing problem. The disease was discovered more than a century ago in Mexico, but it wasn’t until 2015 that it was found in the US corn … Read more

Changing values ​​and direct consumer testing are creating new markets for relationship testing services

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DublinAnd January 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Report “Paternity and Relationship Testing Services. Global Applications and Technologies Market Forecasts with Executive and Advisory Guides 2023 to 2027” has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com an offer. Research and Markets logo It’s not just about paternity testing anymore! Maternity test, grandparents test. Sibling test. Infidelity test? Who knows? It’s … Read more

CRISPR’s wild first decade is only scratching the surface of its potential

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Ten years ago, a little-known bacterial defense mechanism catapulted itself to fame as a powerful genome editor. In the decade since, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has created multiple variants, expanding into a comprehensive toolbox that can tweak life’s genetic code. Far from the pursuit of an ivory tower, its practical uses in research, healthcare, and agriculture came … Read more

The first successful genetic modification of cowpea birds

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Cowpea editer gene was set to be field tested in United States of America in spring 2023 jivat chen, IsraelAnd January 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The first pest plant suitable for automated harvesting has been developed by BetterSeeds, an Agri-Tech company that genetically improves agricultural crops using its proprietary genome editing technology. BetterSeeds is set … Read more

Far from fad diet: Fasting changes your gene expression, experts say

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One of the fastest growing diet trends has nothing to do with what or how much you eat, however when You are Eating. Restricting meal times, a practice sometimes called intermittent fasting or time-restricted eating, comes in many forms, but generally involves limiting food intake to certain windows. Interestingly, fasting is not just about losing … Read more

Pioneering method for stem cell diagnosis:

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image: Leif S. Ludwig gets the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Award. Opinion more Credit: Tomas Rafalczyk, Berlin Institute of Health Frankfurt. Our blood is constantly renewing itself. Every second, millions of new cells are added to the bloodstream to replace dying blood cells. They arise from hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells in the bone … Read more

A startling outline of the viral genome’s replication machinery has been revealed

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain RNA viruses, such as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, are in a life-and-death race once they infect a cell. These viruses have only minutes to establish the transcription machinery inside the host cell before the genetic instructions in their weak RNA genomes — which are much more fragile than DNA — … Read more

Meet the Woman Behind the Grove City Biotech Business Fighting Genetic Diseases with Reprogrammed Viruses – 614NOW

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From a massive 200,000-square-foot facility in Grove City, Dr. Irandi de Silva helps create life-saving medical treatments so small that tens of millions can fit on the head of a pin. No, this is not science fiction. This is central Ohio. De Silva is co-founder of Forge Biologics, a Columbus-area company that specializes in creating … Read more