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Sep 12, 2018

This Week in Genome Research

In Genome Research this week: queen bee chromatin profiles, quantitative trait loci and allele-specific expression in wild house mice, and more.

Aug 23, 2018

New Balance of Rice Genes

Scientific American writes that shifting the balance of GRF4-DELLA in rice could lead the crop to use nitrogen more efficiently.

Aug 22, 2018

One Base

Wired reports that researchers in China have used base editing to fix a Marfan syndrome-linked mutation in human embryos.

Aug 01, 2018

Two Research Teams Engineer Yeast With Fewer Chromosomes Than Typical

The teams, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and NYU Langone Health, generated viable yeast strains with just one or two chromosomes.

May 07, 2018

Cotton Resequencing Studies Lead to New Trait Associations, Domestication Insights

Researchers identified trait-related variants by sequencing more than 400 upland cotton accessions and nearly 250 representatives from two diploid Gossypium species.

Apr 25, 2018

3,000 Rice Genomes Project Sequences Reveal Asian Rice History, Diversity

Based on genome data for 3,010 Asian rice accessions, researchers retraced the domestication history and diversity of Xian/Indica and Geng/Japonica rice.

Apr 05, 2018

This Week in Nature

In Nature this week: fatal pig virus sequenced and traced to bats, and more.

Mar 20, 2018

Cockroach Genome Harbors Gene Expansions That Could Help it Adapt to Urban Environments

A Chinese Academy of Sciences-led team noted expansions within the gene families of olfactory, gustatory, and other receptors in the insect.

Feb 14, 2018

Tumor-Attacking Bots

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed DNA nanobots to deliver cancer treatments, according to Fortune.

Feb 07, 2018

This Week in Cell

In Cell this week: somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning of macaques, high-resolution yeast causal variant map, and more.

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Closely Intertwined

The New York Times and ProPublica look into the close relationship between a startup and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Little From Here and There

Yahoo News reports millions of dollars are being transferred from NIH, CDC, and other programs to pay for the housing of detained undocumented immigrant children.

This Week in Science

In Science this week: in vitro generation of human reproductive cells, and more.

All the Arms for Hugging

Researchers gave a handful of octopuses MDMA to find that they too act more social on the drug, Gizmodo reports.

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