Genetics

Found results: 1417

Genetics

You can live without the Y chromosome

Males and females of the Ryuk mouse have 25 chromosomes in the genome, and the development of testes in them is not started in the same way as in most mammals.

29.11.2022
Genetics

Evolution and genes

Regulatory fragments were found in the genome, which developed rapidly after the separation of our ancestors from the great apes.

25.11.2022
Genetics

Aging and the economy

People born during the Great Depression of the 1930s in the United States have markers of accelerated aging.

23.11.2022
Genetics

"Genes of myopia"

Five genes have been found, variants of which increase the risk of myopia in people of European origin with higher education.

22.11.2022
Genetics

Diabetes and bile acids

Bile acids act as signaling molecules that control various functions in the body, including blood sugar levels.

22.11.2022
Genetics

Replacement for mice and rats

Reading the genome of the Nilotic grass mouse makes it a full-fledged model organism for biomedical research.

18.11.2022
Genetics

From dementia to evolution

Candidate of Biological Sciences Denis Andreyuk – on the diagnosis and prevention of Alzheimer's disease and the problems of human evolution.

17.11.2022
Genetics

Survivor

By the age of 36, a resident of Spain had suffered the formation of 12 different tumors, 5 of them malignant. What did the sequencing of her genome show?

08.11.2022
Genetics

A unique patient

A 36-year-old woman was repeatedly diagnosed with malignant tumors in different parts of her body, but each time they disappeared.

07.11.2022
Genetics

Four-legged witnesses

Pets often become eyewitnesses to crimes, and now they will be able to witness the presence of a particular person in the house.

03.11.2022
Genetics

Make love not war

A recent study suggests the hypothesis that Homo sapiens could have contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals not by violence, but by sex.

02.11.2022
Genetics

Autophagy against neurodegeneration

The study of the mechanism that suppresses autophagy in neurons opens the way to possible therapies for Huntington's disease.

01.11.2022
Genetics

Neanderthal family life

Based on the results of genome analysis, scientists described the social organization of a small community that lived in two Siberian caves.

20.10.2022
Genetics

Parkinsonism and gender

More than 200 genes with different epigenetic labels were found, which were almost completely different in men and women.

19.10.2022
Genetics

Nature or upbringing?

Review of the book by David Linden "Why people are Different: A Scientific View of Human Individuality".

17.10.2022
Genetics

Biological age of sperm

Several research teams were able to construct a fairly accurate (with an error of one and a half years) epigenetic clock of sperm.

14.10.2022