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Jun 01, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 Result of Bat, Pangolin Virus Recombination, Purifying Selection, Study Suggests

The ancestor of a bat coronavirus may have obtained a receptor binding motif found among pangolin coronaviruses through a recombination event.

Oct 10, 2019

Uniparental Disomy More Common in General Population Than Previously Thought

Researchers analyzed data from 23andMe and the UK Biobank to find that errors of recombination, like uniparental disomy, can be present among healthy individuals.

Mar 22, 2019

Single-Cell Sperm Sequencing Reveals New Details About Recombination

With single-cell genome sequencing, recombination assays, and other approaches in mouse cells, researchers identified factors affecting DNA crossover.

Jan 25, 2019

This Week in Science: Jan 25, 2019

In Science this week: high-resolution map of human genetic recombination, and more.

Jan 24, 2019

New Human Genome Map Sheds Light on Mechanisms of Genetic Diversity

Decode Genetics researchers used the map to examine how often and where recombination events and de novo mutations occur in the human genome.

Nov 20, 2015

This Week in Science: Nov 20, 2015

In Science this week: recombination hotspots, journal website hijacking, and more.

Apr 07, 2009

Study Suggests Piwi-Interacting RNAs Expanded Rapidly in Mammals

Based on comparisons between piRNA clusters in mouse, rat, and other mammalian genomes, University of Michigan researchers found evidence that piRNAs are likely under positive selection and capable of rapid expansion.

Apr 01, 2009

Horizon Discovery's UMB Cell-Line Deal Latest Example of Its Academic Collaboration Model

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The University of Maryland, Baltimore is now participating in Horizon's "Targeting Cancer Consortium," in which the company supplies its gene-engineering platform to academic researchers, who create cellular disease models that Horizon in-licenses and sells to drug makers.

Mar 26, 2009

International Team Sequences Genome of Sex-Altering Insect Parasite

An international research team has sequenced the 1.4 million base pair genome of a Wolbachia pipientis strain that infects Drosophila simulans and causes cytoplasmic incompatibility during the fly's mating process.

Mar 11, 2009

Who Owns What? Report Says Market-Based Patent 'Co-Ops' May Improve Upon Current IP Rules

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CalTech's Peter Bossaerts and colleagues studied whether giving participants equal shares of an invention, and the right to trade them, is better than existing patent models. Bossaerts discussed some of the study's implications for current patent-based economies in a BTW interview.

The Scan

Working Out the Effect

The Washington Post reports on researchers' efforts to determine the effect of an increasingly common SARS-CoV-2 mutation.

Increased Genetic Privacy in Florida

Florida Politics reports Florida's law barring life, long-term care, and disability insurers from using genetic information in coverage decisions went into effect at the beginning of July.

Attention-Grabbing in Two Ways

A new analysis finds a link between popular media coverage of a scientific study and how often that paper is cited.

Nature Papers Describe CRISPR Plant Editing Methods, DNA-PAINT Improvements, More

In Nature this week: CRISPR approaches to editing plant genomes, way to speed up DNA-PAINT, and more.

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