Fitness effects of mutations throughout evolution – Nature Reviews Genetics
A study in Science uses bacteria from the Long-Term Evolution Experiment to report on how fitness effects of mutations change through evolution.
A study in Science uses bacteria from the Long-Term Evolution Experiment to report on how fitness effects of mutations change through evolution.
The spread of H5N1 at dairy farms keeps surprising scientists. That’s not good.
H5N1 has been detected in over 9,000 wild birds, 90 million poultry and in dairy cattle. A recent human case in Texas has some asking…
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 Two new preprint studies shed more light on why high H5N1 avian flu viral loads have been seen in the…
Periodical cicadas have a clever hack to help them figure out when to emerge after more than a decade underground
Nature Neuroscience – Brain tissue from patients with focal cortical dysplasia type II (FCDII) exhibits dysmorphic neurons bearing hallmarks of senescence. Treatment with a senolytic…
npj Mental Health Research – Are there distinct levels of language comprehension in autistic individuals – cluster analysis
Nature – Our immune system falters over time, which could explain the negative effects of ageing.
Nature Reviews Immunology – This Review from Comerford and McColl discusses recent advances that have been made in understanding the biology of the atypical chemokine…
Researchers say this may be the first observation of a nonhuman animal purposefully treating a wound with a medicinal plant
Nature Biotechnology – Tumor-reactive T cell receptors are predicted based on single-cell RNA sequencing and single-cell T cell receptor sequencing.