Genetics & Genomics

4+ hour, 39+ min ago   (383+ words) Washington, USA: A recent US scientific study has revealed a hidden factor driving obesity that may not be linked solely to diet but can also result from a disruption in the body's circadian rhythm of stress hormones. A study conducted…...

7+ hour, 34+ min ago   (574+ words) A 2026 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may have uncovered an important piece of that puzzle. Researchers identified what they describe as a “nose-to-brain circuit,” connecting sensory neurons in the nasal cavity with brain regions…...

4+ hour, 48+ min ago   (598+ words) Maize is one of the hungriest crops on the planet, demanding enormous quantities of nitrogen fertilizer to fill its kernels each season. Yet much of that nitrogen never reaches the grain. It leaks into rivers as nitrate, escapes into the…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (221+ words) Get a More Complete View of RNA in Individual Cells Measuring gene expression can reveal which genes are active, but it does not always show the full picture. Different versions of the same gene, known as transcript isoforms, can play…...

5+ hour, 7+ min ago   (529+ words) Every cell in the brain carries essentially the same genome, yet the same gene can produce a startling variety of RNA molecules. Through a process called alternative splicing, segments of a gene’s transcript can be included, skipped, or rearranged, generating…...

6+ hour, 38+ min ago   (661+ words) A single protein called BAX sits at the gateway between life and death for human cells. When tissues are injured, stressed, or deprived of oxygen, BAX springs into action, punching holes in the outer membrane of mitochondria and triggering the…...

6+ hour, 45+ min ago   (587+ words) A team of researchers in China has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of the jumping plant louse Bactericera gobica and, by combining it with nearly every other Triozidae mitogenome available, assembled the most comprehensive genetic dataset ever compiled for…...

7+ hour ago   (55+ words) Gene editing has long promised a revolution in cancer medicine, yet the promise has remained stubbornly out of reach for one deceptively simple reason: getting the CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into tumor cells, and only tumor cells, is extraordinarily difficult. A new…...

11+ hour, 42+ min ago   (371+ words) A decade after Fukushima's evacuation, escaped farm pigs bred with wild boars—but nature is erasing the domestic legacy faster than anyone predicted. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit When the sirens emptied the towns around…...

7+ hour, 53+ min ago   (618+ words) Every day, computational biologists release new methods for analyzing genomes, single cells, microbiomes and molecular signatures, and every day researchers struggle with the same question: which method actually works best for their data? The answer usually depends on benchmarks—structured…...