WRITER FUEL: A new study has revealed that "junk DNA" descended from ancient viruses could play a key role in controlling genes.

https://www.limfic.com/2025/12/27/writer-fuel-ancient-viruses-in-our-dna-help-turn-genes-on-and-off/

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The history of #biological thought has long been dominated by a tension between the deterministic rigidity of the genotype and the fluid adaptability of the phenotype. For much of the 20th century, the Modern Synthesis emphasized the primacy of #genetic mutation and natural selection, often relegating #environmental influence to a mere background filter against which #genes were selected. However. . .
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https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/wi12252501.html

Photographer made it his life work to track down amazing doppelgängers. Here are his best finds.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/doppelgangers-photo-project

Phages use small RNA to hijack bacterial cells and boost replication

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #antibiotic #bacteria #Bacterial #Cell] #DNA #E.coli #genes #Genetic #IL #Israel #Molecule #Protein #Research #RNA #therapy #Virus
https://www.newsbeep.com/319524/

Gestational diabetes alters the placenta at the molecular level, study reveals

Gestational diabetes can cause a multitude of complications in the offspring, but to date, the reasons are incompletely…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/318672/

#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.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/greenland/polar-bears-adapting-survive-warming-climate-rcna248805

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab

#memes #biologymemes #genes #inheritance #biology #population

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Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/

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"We gotta take on, like, duties for one another, ya know?" #nitw

Suddenly I am reminded of Charles Williams and his elusive concept of co-inherence, which has always made a lot of sense to me in a way that doesn't actually make a lot of sense. I have a very vague idea of why the concept seems like such an apt one.

Partly it's the likeness of the notion of co-inherence with natural forces which tend to bind all molecules, all bits of matter to one another. Because of the fundamental uncertainty of the distribution of electric charge around a molecule, any molecule, there's a small probability that a molecule will have a dipole moment at any given moment of time. Therefore, all substances will tend to have a kind of transient, baseline level of electromagnetic cohesion.

We are all of the same matter, the same mortal substance, and therefore we all have some degree of intrinsic bond with each other, a baseline similarity. We are all made of matter. We all have physical properties in common with each other. We all have a similar biochemistry, a similar range of environmental constraints. All human beings are alike in ways that have nothing to do with #genetics, which ignorant #technology culture has imbued with supernatural powers.

It's just not that important, boys. #Genes. They reaaally aren't the key to human existence. They're not a human being's "program", their lines of code, even if "code" is a word applied to nucleic acids.

We are the quintessence of dust. All of us have THAT much in common. How much more pleasant a world it would be if we could all start acting like it.

~Chara

New publication: #Temperature predictability and introduction history affect the expression of #genes regulating #DNA methylation in a globally distributed #songbird. #housesparrow
https://doi.org/10.1002/jav.03468

⭕️ #Greta_Thunberg à #Gênes remercie les habitants de la ville d’être un phare de solidarité et d’avoir lancé une grève générale en soutien à la #Palestine.

#Scientists have been studying the plants in #DeathValley and have decoded the #genes that enable them to survive in this scorching environment. They now want to implement these genes in #wheat, #corn, and other important crops.

That's right, screw #nature. If it doesn't obey us, we'll just build a new one.

The study shows that specific modifications of the #chromosome structure also allow manipulation of the way in which #genes are recombined during #reproduction
#Biotechnology #MolecularBiology #Genetics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/btech11212501.html

These revealed a low explanatory power of individual protein-coding #genes for evolutionary shifts in #torpor. In contrast, there is relatively stronger evidence for evolutionary convergence at the level of #pathways. 🧵3/4