In this valuable study, the authors demonstrate that TCF7L2 plays a role in the pathogenesis of cachexia in a mouse model of GI cancer. The results are solid, although future studies will need further ...

The NCBI Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline is designed to annotate bacterial and archaeal genomes (chromosomes and plasmids). Genome annotation is a multi-level process that includes prediction ...

But I think its value comes from three main things: 1) its flexibility with regard to input format - taking fasta files, GenBank files, and/or NCBI accessions (So if you ... and swapping genome labels ...

At a conference in Washington, D.C., in 2000, the secretoglobin super family of proteins was named to classify proteins with ...

New study finds genetic modifiers control human mutation rates, revealing how populations evolve and risk for genetic ...

The story so far: Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan recently announced that India has become the first country in the world to develop rice varieties using genome editing technology.

Instead of integrating the CRISPR system into the plant's genome, the researchers used a technique called transient transformation. Using Agrobacterium tumefaciens—a bacterium commonly used in p ...

It has been 20 years since the term “genome editing” first entered the scientific lexicon, a field that was revolutionized by the development of CRISPR gene editing in 2012. But the remarkable ...