Parasites of Animals
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Telomere-driven karyotypic and molecular convergence mimics the transmissibility of cancer in the Tasmanian devil
The currently prevailing theory of a transmissible cancer cell lineage in Tasmanian devils was based on the discovery of apparently identical chromosomal aberrations in facial tumors of several ...
Read ItCultivated sweet potatoes contain Agrobacterium inserted T-DNA that is absent in wild sweet potato relatives. A natural GMO?
Available from: Kyndt, T., Quispe, D., Zhai, H., Jarret, R., Ghislain, M., Liu, Q., … Kreuze, J. F. (2015). The genome of cultivated sweet potato contains Agrobacterium T-DNAs with expressed...
Read ItOur Cancer Conundrum: Puzzling or Mysterious?
Cancer research is one of the most dominant fields within the biomedical industry. Trillions have been spent on it, millions or patients and researcher have participated in its research, and despit...
Read ItDiscovery and Redemption emerge from a scientific mistake
We were confused and perplexed. Our team in the laboratory of Pamela Ronald at the University of California, Davis could not reproduce previously published results. Instead of building on the repor...
Read ItMendelian Randomisation: A Minireview
Mendelian randomisation is a technique which, fuelled by the results of GWA studies, can be used to determine causal relationships between intermediate phenotypes such as metabolite levels and outc...
Read ItPicky Eaters: Do mosquitoes prefer the taste of people who smell 'better'?
Anyone who's spent any length of time in the tropics comes to develop an intimate relationship with Aedes aegypti, the domestic mosquito. Although everyone at some point has felt the red-raised itc...
Read ItIs sex really necessary?
Sex has long been an intriguing topic for biologists. Traditional sexual reproduction requires a large amount of energy and even more energy when we consider the time to find a right partner. That ...
Read ItPolygenic traits and the distribution of effect sizes: years of education from Rietveld et al (2013)
It is often said that polygenic traits are based on tons of causal variants each of which has a very small effect size. What is less often discussed is the distribution of these effect sizes, altho...
Read ItPolygenic scores, genetic engineering, validity of GWAS results across major racial groups and the Piffer method
A PDF of this paper without formatting errors can be downloaded here. Abstract I review recent findings in human behavioral genetics and their implications for selective breeding and estimation of ...
Read ItA puzzling pattern of cell-cycle-duration inheritance: just an artefact of changing growth conditions in vitro?
Correspondence re: Sandler, O., S. P. Mizrahi, N. Weiss, O. Agam, I. Simon, and N. Q. Balaban. 2015. "Lineage correlations of single cell division time as a probe of cell-cycle dynamics." Nature no...
Read ItAvoid having to retract your genomics analysis.
Avoid having to retract your genomics analysis. Biology is a data-science The dramatic plunge in DNA sequencing costs means that a single MSc or PhD student can now generate data that would have co...
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