1+ hour, 45+ min ago   (89+ words) A widespread blind spot in one of genomics’ most routine measurements has been brought into sharp focus by a new study comparing short-read and long-read transcriptome sequencing. Researchers report that next-generation sequencing, the short-read workhorse of modern RNA analysis, systematically…...

5+ hour, 53+ min ago   (653+ words) The gene-editing field has long faced a stubborn trade-off. Tools such as CRISPR-Cas9 excel at cutting DNA and at making small, targeted changes, but installing large pieces of genetic material into a genome at a precise location — without causing collateral…...

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2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (65+ words) A new statistical framework could make Mendelian randomization more sensitive to the biological connections linking multiple traits, allowing researchers to test a network of outcomes at once rather than analyzing each one in isolation. The method, developed by researchers at…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (38+ words) Subject of Research: Bibliometric methods and their applications in the health sciences Subject of Research: Biology Article Title: Bibliometric methods and applications in health sciences: a graphical review Cite this news APA MLA Chicago Copy citation Download RIS...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (534+ words) A cell that has become cancerous, aged or otherwise abnormal may appear to have crossed a biological point of no return. Once its internal molecular circuitry has stabilized in a new state, removing the original trigger often does not restore…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (616+ words) Citizen science is moving into one of biology’s most complex frontiers: the human microbiome, the vast community of bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses and other microscopic organisms that live on and inside the body....