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How sick will the coronavirus make you? The answer may be in your genes

... scour the patients genomes for DNA variations that explain this... range from ongoing studies with DNA for many thousands of... new efforts that are collecting DNA from COVID 19 patients...
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Standardizing COVID-19 data analysis to aid international research efforts

... with immediate access to the DNA and RNA sequence information......
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Completely new antibiotic resistance gene has spread unnoticed to several pathogens

... when the scientist compared its DNA sequence to already published bacterial DNA sequences, they found that......
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Worldwide scientific collaboration unveils genetic architecture of gray matter

... researchers studied MRI scans and DNA from more than 50, 000... of the genome. Genes contain DNA, the basic human code......
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What can be learned from the microbes on a turtle s shell?

... present on the turtles, using DNA sequencing to determine which......
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Meet the company that has just begun testing a coronavirus vaccine in the United States

... that relays genetic instructions from DNA to the cell s... proteins, but it typically introduces DNA that can integrate unpredictably... where it s transcribed from DNA. RNA invading from...
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Here be dragons: Analysis reveals new species in Smaug lizard group

... physical features, CT scanning and DNA analysis, a process he... in another. Then comes the DNA analysis in other......
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How trans fats assist cell death

... is called apoptosis, if their DNA is damaged beyond repair. DNA damage can occur in... lesions. But problems in the DNA damage response can lead... trans fats. The researchers...
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How bacteria form communities on the human tongue

... work on bacterial communities used DNA sequencing based approaches, but to get the DNA sequence, you have to... the sample and extract the DNA, which destroys all the......
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All microgastrinae wasps from around the world finally together in a 1,089-page monograph

... host parasitoid associations; summary of available DNA barcodes; estimations of the......
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Testing Blunders Crippled US Response To Coronavirus

... unique part of the virus’ DNA. The WHO quickly adopted......
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Don’t freak out: These are the microbes living on your tongue

... scientists already know much from DNA sequencing about which microbes......
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eDNA provides researchers with more than meets the eye

... University have used next generation DNA sequencing to learn more... Mine Site Restoration said that DNA metabarcoding is a growing... leave behind traces of their DNA through things like...
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New genetic editing powers discovered in squid

... information is passed faithfully from DNA to messenger RNA to......
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The standard coronavirus test, if available, works well—but can new diagnostics help in this pandemic?

... known for adding or deleting DNA in cells. Two U.S... protein called CAS12 that cuts DNA or RNA and a... any other short RNA or DNA strands in the...
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Epigenetic inheritance: A silver bullet against climate change?

... the genetic makeup the DNA base sequence. Recently, another information level of the DNA, namely epigenetics, has come... But what distinguishes changes in DNA from changes in epigenetics ......
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Parental diet affects sperm and health of future offspring

... actually changing an individual s DNA. However, until now, the......
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Heatwaves risky for fish

... converting the genetic information in DNA into a format used......
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A salt formed due to corrosion on restored artwork features structure known from biology

... not uncommon in living nature. DNA, the molecule that carries... we already know that the DNA double helix can be......
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How sperm unpack dad s genome so it can merge with mom s

... which opens up the paternal DNA and allows for major... histones proteins around which DNA is wound, like beads......