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Mary Gehring: Using flowering plants to explore epigentic inheritance
Read more: Mary Gehring: Using flowering plants to explore epigentic inheritanceBiologist’s studies illuminate a control system that influences how traits are passed along to new generations. Genes passed down from generation to generation play a significant role in determining the traits of every organism. In recent decades, scientists have discovered that another layer of control, known as epigenetics, is also critically important in shaping…
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A new way to regulate gene expression
Read more: A new way to regulate gene expressionBiologists uncover an evolutionary trick to control gene expression that reverses the flow of genetic information from RNA splicing back to transcription. Sometimes, unexpected research results are simply due to experimental error. Other times, it’s the opposite — the scientists have uncovered a new phenomenon that reveals an even more accurate portrayal of our bodies…
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Biological engineer Paul Blainey creates new tools to advance biomedical research
Read more: Biological engineer Paul Blainey creates new tools to advance biomedical researchHis technology platforms have benefited genomics, diagnostics and drug screening. Microfluidics — the science of manipulating tiny amounts of fluid through channels — has been widely used in fields such as genomics, where it has helped to enable high-speed sequencing. Several years ago, Paul Blainey started to wonder why microfluidics was not used for drug…
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