#Genetics

The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨tksst@fediscience.org
2025-12-17

🍄🌷 Scientists discovered that Balanophora, a rare parasitic #plant that looks like a #mushroom, survives without photosynthesis and can clone itself on Japanese and Taiwanese #islands.

👉 scitechdaily.com/this-mushroom

#evolution #biology #Japan #Taiwan #Okinawa #forest #plants #genetics #orchids #botany #conservation

2025-12-17

Đậu Hà Lan, vi khuẩn và DNA: Hành trình trăm năm tìm ra bản chất di truyền. Từ thí nghiệm của Mendel đến phát hiện DNA là vật chất di truyền, loài người đã vén bức màn bí ẩn về gen. Hershey-Chase xác nhận DNA, không phải protein, mang thông tin di truyền. Câu chuyện không kết thúc – nó mở ra sinh học hiện đại.
#Genetics #DNA #Mendel #HersheyChase #DiTruyen #SinhHocPhanTu #KhoaHoc #EDITGENE

dev.to/editgene/peas-bacteria-

Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2025-12-16

"All told, more than half of Parkinson’s research dollars in the past two decades have flowed toward genetics.

But Parkinson’s rates in the US have doubled in the past 30 years. And studies suggest they will climb another 15 to 35 percent in each coming decade. This is not how an inherited genetic disease is supposed to behave.

Despite the avalanche of funding, the latest research suggests that only 10 to 15 percent of Parkinson’s cases can be fully explained by genetics. The other three-quarters are, functionally, a mystery. “More than two-thirds of people with PD don’t have any clear genetic link,” says Briana De Miranda, a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “So, we’re moving to a new question: What else could it be?”

“The health you enjoy or don’t enjoy today is a function of your environment in the past,” says Ray Dorsey, a physician and professor of neurology at the University of Rochester. Your “environment” could be the refinery a town over, the lead in the paint of your mother’s home, the plastic sheath of the Hot Pocket you microwaved in 1996. It is air pollution and PFAS and pesticides and so much more.

And this environment of yours—the sum of all your exposures, from conception to the grave—could be making you sicker than you realize. In a study of half a million Britons, Oxford researchers determined that lifestyle and the environment is 10 times more likely to explain early death than genetics. But that also offers a tantalizing prospect. If Parkinson’s is an environmental disease, as Dorsey and a small band of researchers emphatically believe, then maybe we can end it."

wired.com/story/scientists-tho

#Parkinsons #ParkinsonsDisease #ParkinsonsResearch #Genetics

The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨tksst@fediscience.org
2025-12-16

🧬🚀 NatGeo covers the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the 21st century so far, including #CRISPR, gravitational waves, James Webb #Space #Telescope discoveries, and the human genome project.

👉 nationalgeographic.com/science

#science #discovery #breakthrough #genetics #physics #astronomy #technology #tech #research

2025-12-16

Black panther cub (Panthera) (a melanistic leopard or jaguar cub), Even though their coat appears black, the classic rosette patterns can still often be seen faintly in the right light (called "ghost spots") #cats #nature #animals #biology #photography #wildlife #genetics #science

resting in lush green foliage,,Black panther cub (Panthera) (a melanistic leopard or jaguar cub), Even though their coat appears black, the classic rosette patterns can still often be seen faintly in the right light (called "ghost spots")
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io
2025-12-16

#Polarbears are rewiring their own #genetics to survive a warming #climate
"Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century," with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050,
Researchers say first documented case of rising temperatures driving #genetic change in a #mammal, offer a "glimmer of hope" for #Arctic species
In slightly warmer south Greenland, #genes linked to heat stress, aging and metabolism behaved differently from those in northern bears.
nbcnews.com/world/greenland/po

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋bibliolater@qoto.org
2025-12-15

🇮🇹 **Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy**

"_The community shows closer genetic affinity to Early Bronze Age Sicilians than to contemporaneous populations from the Italian peninsula. However, unlike contemporary Sicilian individuals, they lack eastern genetic influences, suggesting distinct ancestral trajectories and interaction networks among Bronze Age populations._"

Fontani, F., Larocca, F., Cilli, E. et al. Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy. Commun Biol 8, 1766 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-091.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Demography #Science #Biology #Consanguinity #Genetics #History #BronzeAge #Italy #Academia

2025-12-15

Hội nhập transcriptome và connectome, SpaCon phát hiện mối liên hệ giữa biểu hiện gen và kết nối não. Mô hình này sử dụng thuật toán mã hóa đồ thị để dự đoán kết nối từ dữ liệu gen, phân loại chính xác các loại tế bào thần kinh. Độ chính xác cao, hiệu quả tính toán vượt trội, nghiên cứu trên nhiều loài. #KHCN #NgônNgữMôTếBào #Connectome #AI #BrainResearch #SpaCon #Genetics #Neuroscience #KHCNViệtNam

reddit.com/r/singularity/comme

2025-12-15

"The rise of the eukaryotes was one of the most important events in Earth’s history. If it had not occurred, there would be no great white sharks, no towering redwood trees, no hovering hummingbirds and no people. Just slimy layers of bacteria and archaea, everywhere. And the Asgard archaea may have started it all."

sciencenews.org/article/cells-

#Life #Eukaryotes #Archaea #Asgard #Cells #Biology #Evolution #Genetics

Susan Villevillebooks
2025-12-15

cc @homohortus31

📲 🔹 Explore beyond genes - Denis Noble challenges the central , discussing the surprising role of cells and their dynamic networks

Video: Essentia Foundation

youtube.com/watch?v=NAPhBt8VJCM

adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
2025-12-14

Book Promotion: Limited Offer: Get MONSTERS for the holidays as a gift for a lover of dystopian SF (or yourself, I won't tell). "Action-packed and well-plotted, shifting points of view, this is a real page turner." #thriller #amreading #scifi #writing #school #dystopian #superhero #reading #action #fedibookfair #apocalyptic #readers #legendary #genetics #goodbooks #futurism #adventure #monsters #boost #dystopia #time #sf #police (8332) shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?par

All Scientificalallscientifical
2025-12-14

Oncological diseases are characterized by rapid development of cells

Oncological diseases are a whole category of diseases (often identified as cancer) characterized by chaotic, uncontrolled and rapid development of cells. As a rule, the full name of the cancer is supplemented by the name of the affected organ (for example: pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer).

adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
2025-12-14

Book Promotion: MONSTERS: The story of a teenage girl who's turning into a monster - literally. "Excellent! A gripping dystopian future world." "Action-packed and well-plotted, this is a real page turner." #kindle #legendary #audiobook #readers #dystopian #apocalypse #reading #manchesteruk #bookworms #fedibookfair #boost #military #police #corporations #genetics #audio #mustread #manchester #detective #epic #amreading #writing #ebook #mutants #monsters #inprinttaupress.com/monsters-s1?utm_s

William Lindsey :toad:wdlindsy@toad.social
2025-12-13

"We’re all more closely related than we know, and our family has been murdering its own.

I’d think a realization like that should send every nationalist running for the shelter of cosmopolitan liberalism. Here we will treat you as a man and a brother, no matter who you are, and nowhere else can promise that. Let’s build a polity that’s faithful to the memory of all of our ancestors."

P.S. I don't know why Kuznicki uses male-gendered terms here.

#racism #classism #nationalism #genetics
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