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Enhancing nitrogen fixation by cultivated crops reduces the need for nitrogenous fertilizers, thus lowering the production costs and environmental pollution. A recent article in Plant Biotechnology Journal describes how genetic…
Lung cancer is a multifactorial disease driven by environmental exposures, especially cigarette smoking, inherited germline genetic variants and an accumulation of somatic genetic events. Lung cancer genes are reported in…
Now that the whole genome sequencing (WGS) is available, and genes can be edited, linking all observed health and disease traits to corresponding genes is a dream to chase. To…
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine describes the success of phase 1–2 trial of hemophilia B gene therapy. The study evaluates the adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene…
There has been a discussion on this site about DNA base editing. Two companies, Beam Therapeutics and Verve Therapeutics, are leading the clinical application of base editing technique. Base editing…
Mosquitoes are notorious vectors for many grave diseases. Examples of these diseases are malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, and Zika virus. Fighting the disease by fighting the vector is an…
The early detection of cancer has gained a justifiable great interest. The use of genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics for this purpose has been the focus of a lot of research.…
Researchers of the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium have completed a quest that started 32 years ago. They have uncovered the final DNA sequences that make up a human genome. They have…
A new player in next generation sequencing, Ultima Genomics, has emerged out of stealth with a claim that could not be missed: the one-hundred-dollar genome has arrived. This appearance was…
Vitamin D from tomatoes? Researchers have found a way to produce vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) in tomatoes, according to the article in Nature Plants. It is well known that plants are…
Cancer blood tests? This is a rather old news. What brings it up is the ongoing discussion here about liquid biopsy. In fact, the term “blood test” is now giving…
Precision therapy of cancer is the ultimate best treatment sought by doctors for their patients. This new article in Cancer Discovery describes a comprehensive resource of precision combination therapies tailored…
Hypoallergenic cat? This may sound funny or silly for some. However, this is a serious matter for others, those many people who suffer from allergy to cats. Researchers have put…
On Friday, January 7, 2022, surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical center successfully performed the first pig to human heart transplant (Published before). On March 8, 60 days after…
Precise cancer cell targeting by CRISPR-Cas9 is now possible according to the article published by South Korean researchers. The targeted killing of cancer cells without affecting surrounding normal cells is…
