Pathogenic bacteria build an iron-storage system for growth and survival in their hosts (www.nature.com)
Odor representations from the two nostrils are temporally segregated in human piriform cortex (www.cell.com)
This hybrid baby monkey is made of cells from two embryos (www.nature.com)
First live birth of a chimeric monkey using embryonic stem cell lines (medicalxpress.com)
Gattacca here we come....
Full MIT Lectures on Machine Learning in Genomics (www.youtube.com)
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Machine Learning and gene editing at the helm of a societal evolution (free e-book) (www.rand.org)
New explanation for infertility: eggs lacking a mysterious ‘lattice’ (www.nature.com)
Scientists reveal structures of neurotransmitter transporter (medicalxpress.com)
How Life Really Works (nautil.us)
Genome sequencing project reveals new secrets about cat evolution (phys.org)
Starfish bodies aren’t bodies at all, study finds | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Flies neglect food and endure shocks to seek a dopamine reward (www.dpag.ox.ac.uk)
First-ever observation of a virus attaching to another virus (phys.org)
Research shows roaches suppress immune system before giving birth (phys.org)
How bacteria support wound healing (phys.org)
One of the important functions of the skin microbiota is to keep pathogens away from healing wounds, which double as prime entry sites for microorganisms. This can be accomplished directly through the production of antimicrobial molecules that kill potential threats, or indirectly when resident bacteria interfere with the...
Beyond Biology: Scientists Uncover a Universal “Missing Law of Evolution” (scitechdaily.com)
Tropical parasite gains a foothold in the US, especially in Texas (www.livescience.com)
Scientists identified a new strain of a parasite that causes the disease leishmaniasis, and they mainly found it in people who had not recently traveled outside the U.S....
Reef-devouring predator survives coral bleaching and feasts on the survivors (phys.org)
Research conducted by marine biologists from the University of Sydney has found juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish can withstand tremendous heat waves well above levels that kill coral. These starfish then develop into carnivorous predators that devour reefs just as they begin to regrow....
How climate change could cause havoc to the extraordinary lifespans of bats (phys.org)
The extraordinary lifespans of bats could be under threat from rising global temperatures, according to new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences....
Scientists generate first single-cell atlas of the primate brain (phys.org)
Thousands of programmable DNA-cutters found in algae, snails, and other organisms (news.mit.edu)
New brain atlases will unlock mysteries of the human mind (www.dw.com)
Mutated Gene That Causes Webbed Limbs in Humans May Have Given Bats Wings (www.scientificamerican.com)
From glowing cats to wombats, fluorescent mammals are much more common than you'd think (phys.org)
Recently, several mammals have been reported to “glow” under ultraviolet (UV) light, including our beloved platypus. But no one knew how common it was among mammals until now....
Cell biologists identify new organelle present in mammalian cells made of rings of DNA (phys.org)
Researchers at ETH Zurich recently identified a previously unknown compartment in mammalian cells. They have named it the exclusome. It is made up of DNA rings known as plasmids. The researchers have published details of their discovery in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell....
