Cattle Genomic Data Gives Breeders Competitive Edge
In Australia, case study research demonstrates how 10 years of genomic data has been used to combine three cattle breeds, Taurus, Sanga and Indicus,...
Woolly Mammoth Could Arise from the Dead in Hybrid Version
In the United Kingdom, thanks to PayPal’s founder Peter Theil’s donation of $100,000 to a de-extinction organization, scientists are trying to bring back the...
Microbes hide out in desert ‘til the rain comes
In Germany, researchers from Universität Berlin discovered that Chile’s Atacama Desert wasn’t so dry and devoid of life after all. After a rare rainstorm,...
Genetic Analysis Indicates Why Breast Cancer Stem Cells Survive Chemotherapy
In Maryland, scientists have long known that breast cancer stem cells can survive chemotherapy, which is not good as those cells are usually in...
No pain, no gain for family with genetic mutation that doesn’t allow them to...
In Italy, a family shares a gene variant that causes them to not feel pain sensations, which seemingly a positive thing, has its downsides...
Magic mushrooms gene cluster save themselves
In Ohio, researchers found that psilocybin, the chemical that gives mushrooms hallucinogenic effects, actually serves a purpose for the mushrooms themselves. They analyzed three...
Is Holiday Stress Causing You to Drink Too Much or Get Divorced? Study Says...
In Virginia, researchers studied people in Sweden who were alcoholics and divorced to see if they could find a correlation. They were trying to...
Genetic Markers Being Used to Help Save Ash Trees From Deadly Disease
In the United Kingdom, Queen Mary University of London, University of York, Earlham Institute, John Innes Centre, NIAB and the University of Copenhagen collaborated...
Regeneron, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and others to accelerate largest ‘big data’ genome biobank
In New York, Regeneron plans to sequence the exomes of all 500,000 people within the UK Biobank resource, all with associated health records, creating...
Grow your own paint? Could happen using genetic coding of nature’s colors
In the United Kingdom, researchers from the University of Cambridge and Dutch company Hoekmine BV are unlocking the genetic code behind some of the...