49+ min ago   (271+ words) The brain’s activity immediately before stimulation may help predict its response and improve the consistency of neuromodulation. The same brain stimulation can produce very different responses depending on when it is delivered. A study published in Brain Stimulation, using detailed…...

2+ hour, 39+ min ago   (266+ words) ORNL develops database of validated guide RNAs to improve engineering of microbes for manufacturing applications image: ORNL scientists evaluated nearly a half-million guide RNAs for E.coli, making it easier and faster to engineer the microbe as a biotechnology tool using…...

3+ hour, 55+ min ago   (296+ words) For decades, biologists assumed that cells transmit instructions mainly through the concentration of signaling molecules — the higher the level, the stronger the response. Yet more and more evidence suggests this picture is incomplete: cells also rely on the timing and…...

2+ hour, 45+ min ago   (879+ words) The secret to a long life may lie in the genomes of the longest-lived mammals for their size: bats. That idea captivated Juan Manuel Vazquez when he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, but at the time…...

2+ hour, 56+ min ago   (909+ words) An abundance of genes that interact with viruses helps bats stay healthy despite huge viral loads. UC Berkeley scientists are finding that these same genes play a role in longevity The secret to a long life may lie in the…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago   (268+ words) THE Tarlac State University’s Center for Peace, Indigenous Peoples Resources and Development (CPIPRD) is pursuing development on ancestral domain as it presented progress on its research on Indigenous communities. Known as ‘Integrated Governance, Health, and Nutritional Assessment of the Ayta…...

4+ hour, 12+ min ago   (630+ words) Credit: Institute for Basic Science Alzheimer’s disease is not one malfunction but many. Synapses—the tiny contact points through which neurons communicate—disappear. Neural circuits become unstable. Astrocytes and microglia become reactive. Amyloid plaques accumulate, and memory and thinking abilities…...

3+ hour, 19+ min ago   (147+ words) Dutch data company Polariks has introduced digitally managed envirotyping, adding a third layer of information alongside its existing genotyping and phenotyping data services. Phenotyping is typically based on descriptions derived from observation and is usually recorded in breeding software. While…...

4+ hour, 36+ min ago   (400+ words) A study of more than 2,000 people in the United States and China finds that the line between medical and non-medical traits, which underpins the rules on embryo testing in most countries, does not match the preferences of the public. That…...

38+ min ago   (842+ words) Amyloidosis Bioengineer.org...