The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
Including microbiome composition in predictions of whether a person is obese can significantly improve their accuracy, according to an analysis.
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In cooperation with its microbiome, the animal has genetic help in digesting blood and warding off pathogens.
With multiple applications in biomedicine, the antibodies can now be made quickly, cheaply, and without the need for an alpaca or one of its relatives.
In chapter 5, “The Technology Ticket,” contributing author Uris Baldos urges acceptance and investment in “precision agriculture” to provide for a burgeoning global population.
Transcriptional profiling of post-mortem human brains reveals commonalities in the genes over- and under-expressed in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and major depression.
Researchers find that while bats in the Myotis genus don’t produce telomerase, the enzyme that lengthens telomeres, they possess 21 telomere maintenance–related genes.
Two studies identify a signaling pathway that contributes to the fish’s sleeplessness.
After years of obscurity, strains of mice with mutations in particular genes are thrust to the fore of autism research.
The approach, which has never before been successfully attempted in primates, could lead to improved animal models for human biology and disease.
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