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The Mosaic Brain: How somatic mutations cause brain diseases
It’s All in the Timing: Optimizing Chemotherapy Administration
What’s Mine is Yours: The Immunogenetics of Mating in Anglerfish
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DIY Cells: Understanding Life with a Synthetic Minimal Cell
Modeling Epilepsy in a Dish Using Patient-Derived iPSCs
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Articles
A new study highlights the need for considering spatial structure in detecting positive selection
Identifying the signatures of natural selection in a population is tricky.
Mapping the natural history of yeast in a science outreach program
New research lays out a geographical sampling activity tailored for middle school students that helps discover genetic diversity in yeast.
New method reveals hidden evolutionary signatures in human non-coding genomic regions
New research showcases a new approach that incorporates multiple demographic parameters.
Chew on this: improved greater wax moth genome gives insight into plastic biodegradation
New reference genome published in G3 supports phylogenetic exploration of plastic degrading enzymes produced by winged insects.
Finding the cause of mammoth extinction
Environmental DNA and climate change data suggest that vegetation scarcity led to the mass extinction of herbivore species, including Arctic mammoths.
Showstoppers: Astrocytes and the plastic brain
New research demonstrates a key astrocytic mechanism in the early Drosophila larval circuit that enables termination of the critical period.
Determining causative alleles underlying the link between Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis
New research published in G3 identifies genetic risk variants of multiple sclerosis in immune cells, with many alleles relevant in EBV infection.
Lost in translation: Mistranslated tRNA variants show sex-specific effects in Drosophila
A Drosophila model of protein mistranslation reveals the effects of serine to valine or threonine substitutions on development and survival.
A detailed recombination map reveals sex-specific differences in recombination rates in barn owls
The first recombination landscape of barn owls quantifies sex-dependent variation.
Balancing genetic privacy with open data in genomic research
A new encryption method allows researchers to maintain human data confidentiality without the need for decryption in genomic analyses.
In love with the shape of you: Physical scaffolding defines organoid patterning
Controlling a growing tissue’s shape achieves deterministic and uniform patterning in intestinal organoids.
Broken clocks and mood swings:
The link between circadian clock changes and Lithium treatment in Bipolar disorder patients
How does COVID-19 take away your sense of smell?
It’s not the neurons in the nose and brain but the support cells that are likely to cause anosmia in COVID-19 patients.
Generating mini-guts for drug screening
Human gut organoids facilitate precise disease modeling and power high-throughput drug development efforts.
Scientist profiles
A fly geneticist’s journey into discovering rules of organ development
2024 George W. Beadle Award recipient Deborah Andrew discovered new genes and pathways in Drosophila salivary gland organogenesis.
Unlocking mysteries of trait and disease heritability in dogs
2024 Edward Novitski Prize recipient Elaine Ostrander, a pioneer of the domestic dog model, discovered genes affecting dog size, morphology, and behavior.
Build-a-Genome course: Recruiting an army of undergraduates to synthesize yeast genome
2024 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recipient Jef Boeke transformed his landmark synthetic yeast genome project into a teaching course.
The worm whisperer: One scientist’s journey into understanding worms
2024 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Paul Sternberg’s decades-long discoveries in worm physiology, development, and behavior.
A microbiologist’s quest to understand CRISPR in bacterial self-defense
2024 Genetics Society of America Medal recipient Luciano Marraffini determined how CRISPR-Cas systems destroy genetic targets with precision.
A young professor shaping how to study and communicate chromosome dynamics
2024 Genetics Society of America Early Career Medal recipient Ofer Rog pursues a mechanistic understanding of chromosome structure and function.
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Structural Biology: Tools of the trade
Untangling Neuro- degeneration with Cryo-EM
Streamlining membrane protein research with mass photometry
Mass photometry advances membrane protein characterization by offering fast and precise mass measurements of samples.
Viral nucleic acid purification in a single spin
A simple nucleic acid extraction approach quickly purifies genomic viral RNA and DNA while minimizing cross-contamination risks.
Understanding cancer with precision medicine
Message in a bottle: Developing mRNA therapeutics
A high efficiency, low toxicity method for direct RNA delivery into cells.
Revealing Gene Functions in Health and Disease
From concept to cure: AAVs in gene therapy
Revolutionizing cellular phenotyping with multiplex tissue imaging
Highly multiplexed tissue immunohistochemistry combined with an automated, high resolution imaging pipeline resolves unlimited protein targets.
Understanding Spatial Biology