Genetics

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Genetics

Decryptor for viruses

A new development of the Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology of St. Petersburg State University, called coronaSPAdes, allows you to collect the genomes of RNA viruses.

16.07.2020
Genetics

Neurons are not born

Deactivation of the HERV-K gene can lead to the formation of a neuron from induced pluripotent stem cells.

15.07.2020
Genetics

From end to end

For the first time, geneticists have determined the complete sequence of the human X chromosome and created an exact virtual copy of it.

15.07.2020
Genetics

The most effective gene

Scientists analyzed almost 300 antibodies that neutralize the coronavirus, and found that the most effective of them are encoded by the IGHV3-53 gene.

14.07.2020
Genetics

The Dangerous Five

Five mutations were found in humans that increase the severity of coronavirus infection and the likelihood of death of patients.

06.07.2020
Genetics

The new flu

It easily colonizes the epithelial cells of the human respiratory tract, and more than 10% of Chinese pig farm workers have antibodies to it.

30.06.2020
Genetics

Genetics and CFS

£3.2 million will be allocated for the most extensive study to identify a genetic predisposition to chronic fatigue syndrome.

23.06.2020
Genetics

Woe from wit

Biologist Varvara Diakonova – about the DNA shell, behavioral experiments and the price for the mind in animals.

16.06.2020
Genetics

Contagious mutants

The most common mutation increases the contagiousness of the coronavirus from 2.5 to 8 times. It occurs in more than half of the studied strains.

16.06.2020
Genetics

Diagnosis by transcriptome

Scientists from MIPT, together with colleagues and doctors, have successfully used RNA sequencing for cancer diagnosis for the first time.

15.06.2020
Genetics

Genetics and coronavirus

The severe course of COVID-19 disease is caused by features in two parts of the genome.

11.06.2020
Genetics

Chromosomal tricks

Researchers from Russia and Poland have found out how edible frogs remove half of their DNA from their genome before forming germ cells.

10.06.2020
Genetics

Live long or well?

The effect of a low–calorie diet on life expectancy and health are two separate mechanisms for which different genes are responsible.

05.06.2020
Genetics

Disable Cancer

A gene for aggressive growth of breast cancer has been found, the inhibition of which leads to a halt in the growth and metastasis of the tumor.

04.06.2020
Genetics

The path to leukemia treatment

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have discovered that the CXCR4 gene is essential for the survival of leukemia stem cells.

04.06.2020
Genetics

A useful inheritance

Women with a progesterone receptor mutation inherited from Neanderthals have fewer miscarriages and, on average, more children.

28.05.2020