Genetics & Genomics

1+ day, 19+ 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…...

4+ min 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…...

4+ hour, 46+ 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…...

57+ 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…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (75+ words) A transporter sitting in the walls of the brain’s blood vessels has turned out to be one of the most important gatekeepers of brain chemistry during development, according to a new study published in iScience. The protein, known as SLC38A2, shuttles…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago   (758+ words) Scientists in Japan have taken one of the most detailed looks yet at how large-scale genome disruption inside tumor cells may quietly rewire the immune landscape around them, and their findings could help explain why some cancers mount virtually no…...

2+ hour, 1+ min ago   (744+ words) For decades, the central obstacle to testing therapies that slow human aging has been painfully simple: aging takes decades to measure. A drug that genuinely delays the biological processes of aging would need years, often a lifetime, of follow-up before…...

2+ hour, 22+ min ago   (597+ words) The genomes of true frogs have long puzzled geneticists. Amphibians are famous for carrying some of the largest and most repetitive genomes among vertebrates, and yet the detailed architecture of their repetitive DNA has remained poorly explored compared with mammals,…...

2+ hour, 22+ min ago   (68+ words) Aging has become a product. Across North America and Europe, companies now sell direct-to-consumer epigenetic tests that estimate a customer’s biological age from DNA methylation patterns, often bundled with supplements and lifestyle programs marketed as capable of slowing or even…...

3+ hour, 44+ min ago   (580+ words) Plant height may seem like a simple trait, but in soybean it sits at the heart of one of agriculture’s most consequential trade-offs. Tall plants can shade weeds and capture light, yet they topple in wind and rain, complicate harvest,…...