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DNA-guided CRISPR system targets RNA and expands Cas12 beyond gene editing
39+ min ago (224+ words) A DNA-guided CRISPR platform could make RNA detection and control more stable, scalable, and precise, opening new routes for diagnostics, transcriptome engineering, and future therapeutic research. In the present study, researchers designed "DNA, a DNA-based guide that helps Cas12 systems find…...
Tech Talk: From technology scouting to real world single-cell functional analysis
4+ hour, 6+ min ago (139+ words) Friday, May 22 at15: 00 BST | 16: 00 CEST | 10: 00 EDT | 07: 00 PDT In this Select Science" Tech Talk, Toon Swings, Technology Expert at VIB Tech Watch, shares how his team scouts, evaluates, and stress-tests emerging single-cell platforms, and what criteria separate incremental from transformative advances. Two…...
Sequencing constraints lifted as Pacific Biosciences of California enables combined genetic and methylation detection
4+ hour, 23+ min ago (691+ words) Traders Union Sequencing constraints lifted as Pacific Biosciences of California enables combined genetic and methylation detection Pacific Biosciences of California announces a technology advancement allowing researchers to capture both genetic variation and native methylation in a single sequencing run without…...
Tiny DNA samples could help crack down on illegal wildlife trafficking
11+ hour, 48+ min ago (527+ words) White-bellied pangolin displayed by a local vendor along a national road extension in Nimba County, Liberia. (Philippe Gaubert via SWNS) Tiny samples of DNA can "pinpoint" hotspots and trade routes of the illegal wildlife trade, reveals new research. Pangolins are…...
Female brains have measurably more connections between the two hemispheres, and male brains have more connections within each hemisphere " and neuroscientists still argue about whether this explains anything or nothing at all
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (1106+ words) Space Daily Ragini Verma, a biomedical imaging researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, published a paper in late 2013 that did something unusual for a neuroscience finding: it escaped the journal and entered the dinner-table conversation almost intact. Using diffusion tensor…...
Tiny DNA samples could help crack down on illegal wildlife trafficking | Nation
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (527+ words) White-bellied pangolin displayed by a local vendor along a national road extension in Nimba County, Liberia. (Philippe Gaubert via SWNS) Tiny samples of DNA can "pinpoint" hotspots and trade routes of the illegal wildlife trade, reveals new research. Pangolins are…...
How scientist designed viruses that kill superbugs
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (735+ words) Scientists have sequenced samples from one in five South Australian cystic fibrosis patients as antibiotic resistance reaches crisis levels worldwide. Don't miss out on the headlines from Partner Content. Followed categories will be added to My News. From the smallest…...
NASA Astrobiology Report: PESTO Search for Life Instrumentation Study For Solar System Life Detection
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (73+ words) Draft for Community Feedback Study Background and Scope The search for life beyond Earth remains one of the most compelling scientific priorities identified in the 2023 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey (National Academies, 2023). Central to this vision is Question 11: Q11. Search…...
Frontiers | Nanopore genome sequencing of Aeromonas salmonicida strain AB001 from lesions of diseased Acipenser baerii
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (688+ words) 3 Sequencing and genome assembly 4 Data value and reuse potential Front. Genet. , 19 May 2026 2. Almaty Branch of the National Center for Biotechnology, Central Reference Laboratory, Almaty, Kazakhstan 3. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Farabi University, Almaty, Kazakhstan…...
Frontiers | Precision diagnosis of GABRA1-associated encephalopathies and epilepsy: optimizing variants classification and molecular subregional effects
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (440+ words) Emerging Frontiers in the Genetics and Clinical Management of Pediatric Epilepsy Front. Genet. , 19 May 2026 Sec. Genetics of Common and Rare Diseases 1. Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital and Clinical Neuroscience Institute of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China 2. Department of Neurology,…...