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 ItAvailable 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 ItCancer 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 ItWe 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 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 ItAnyone 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 ItSex 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 ItIt 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 ItA 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 ItCorrespondence 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. 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...
Read It“Microbiome” is such a hot term these days. And one key question many ask is “what does it mean?” A related question is – “where did the term come from?” I tried to tackle this many years ago on ...
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