DNA
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How does the mother’s half-genome merge with father’s half-genome?
The paternal genome genomes an enormous trade of histone with protamine for compaction into sperm during spermiogenesis. Upon fertilization, this procedure is...
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Scientists mapped around 18,000 of the proteins in a plant model
Plants are essential for life and are incredibly diverse organisms with unique molecular capabilities. Each cell of an organism...
Health
Pregnancy length could alter the child’s DNA
Premature birth is common. Between 5 and 10% of all kids in the world are born prematurely. Most children will develop and...
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75 million-year-old dinosaur skeletons found with fossil chromosomes
Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Mary Schweitzer, of North...
Health
Understanding the genetic mechanism that affects birth defects, some cancers
Scientists focused on a set of proteins called GLI (glioma-associated oncogene) and how they control gene expression in response to what is known as the Hedgehog pathway.
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Indian scientists discovered a new way to fight TB
Tuberculosis kills. When it doesn’t, its effect stays for what is a lifetime. To make things worse, the current approach for treating...
Science
First building blocks of life on Earth explained
It may have been messier than previously thought.
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Unveiling Cells’ 3-D Ultrastructure
The method melds the best of super-resolution fluorescence and electron microscopy to show how proteins relate to cells’ fine structure.