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2,447 results for: mutations

  1. Neuroscience

    Mice with a mutation linked to autism affect their littermates’ behavior

    Genetically normal littermates of mutated mice behave strangely, suggesting that the social environment plays a big role in behavior.

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  2. Genetics

    New CRISPR gene editors can fix RNA and DNA one typo at a time

    New gene editors can correct common typos that lead to disease.

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  3. Genetics

    How a crop-destroying fungus mutated to infect wheat

    Study details how wheat got a new pathogen called blast fungus.

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  4. Planetary Science

    How NASA has kept Apollo moon rocks safe from contamination for 50 years

    NASA wouldn’t let our reporter touch the Apollo moon rocks. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

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  5. Life

    Not all of a cell’s protein-making machines do the same job

    Ribosomes may switch up their components to specialize in building proteins.

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  6. Life

    We may now know when hand, foot and mouth disease outbreaks will occur

    Birthrates and immunity rates predict the spread of viruses that cause hand, foot and mouth disease.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    New twist on a flu vaccine revs up the body’s army of virus killers

    A new approach to flu vaccine development makes influenza virus extra sensitive to a powerful antiviral system.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Alzheimer’s protein can travel from blood to build up in the brain

    Experiments in mice show Alzheimer’s protein can travel from the blood of an affected mouse to the brain of a healthy animal.

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  9. Neuroscience

    Cilia in the brain may be busier than previously thought

    A hairlike appendage sticking out of brain cells may be much more important in the brain than scientists realized.

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  10. Genetics

    The researcher who created CRISPR twins defends his work but fails to quell controversy

    After getting a glimpse of data behind the birth of the first gene-edited babies, many scientists question the study’s ethics and medical necessity.

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  11. Genetics

    CRISPR gene editing moved into new territory in 2017

    Scientists edited viable human embryos with CRISPR/Cas9 this year.

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  12. Life

    This ‘junk’ gene may be important in embryo development

    Mice — and maybe humans — can’t get past the two-cell stage of development without a particular type of jumping gene.

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