The exact causes of schizophrenia are still unknown, but now, a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore (USA), claim to have discovered how a genetic variation related to schizophrenia influences the development of brain cells. The study has been published in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
A team of researchers led by the National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) has reduced the total figure that makes up the human genome by 1,700 genes, thus obtaining that our genome is finally made up of 19,000 genes. To do this, they carried out state-of-the-art bioinformatics and genetic analyzes, as well as the use of data from seven previous mass spectrometry studies, the most powerful tool for detecting molecules, in this case proteins from more than 50 tissues. humans.
80 researchers from 30 institutions from 18 different countries have collaborated in this project, which aimed to sequence the genome of the so-called “rubber trees” or eucalyptus.
A team of researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (USA) has achieved a great advance in the research of Parkinson's disease after identifying a new gene involved in this disease that affects the nervous system and characterized among other things by problems of the speech, sleep, tremors, depression, excessive salivation or balance problems, and which is chronic and degenerative in nature.
Being born with natural blonde hair is part of a very slight genetic change, as a team of researchers from Stanford University in California (USA) has just discovered.
A group of researchers has just discovered that female pigs are capable of recognizing whether a sperm will engender a male or a female even before being fertilized.
A team of researchers from the Scripps Research Institute in California (USA) has succeeded in incorporating new letters into the genetic alphabet after developing a bacterium whose DNA includes two artificial bases that do not exist naturally, thus creating the first semi-synthetic living organism.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
