BIOLOGY

AI Designs Complete Functional Genomes

Umesh Prasad -
The genome language model Evo 2 has designed novel functional genomes of bacteriophage ΦX174. About 300 of the AI-generated designs were chemically synthesised and tested in...
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Chernobyl Fungi as Shield Against Cosmic Rays for Deep-Space Missions 

Umesh Prasad -
In 1986, the 4th unit of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (erstwhile Soviet Union) suffered massive fire and steam explosion. The unprecedented accident released over 5% of the radioactive...
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Centromere sizes determine Unique Meiosis in Dogrose   

Umesh Prasad -
The dogrose (Rosa canina), the wild rose plant species, has a pentaploid genome with 35 chromosomes. It has an odd number of chromosomes, yet it...
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BIOLOGY

Sukunaarchaeum mirabile: What Constitutes a Cellular Life?  

Kamakhya P. Seal -
Researchers have discovered a novel archaeon in symbiotic relationship in a marine microbial system that displays an extreme genome reduction in having a highly stripped-down...
BIOLOGY

How Male Octopus Avoid Being Cannibalised by Female  

Umesh Prasad -
Researchers have discovered that some male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a novel defence mechanism to avoid being cannibalised by the hungry females during reproduction....
BIOLOGY

Multiple Dinosaur Trackways Discovered in Oxfordshire

Umesh Prasad -
Multiple trackways with about 200 dinosaur footprints have been discovered on a quarry floor in Oxfordshire. These dates to the Middle Jurassic Period (around...
BIOLOGY

De-extinction and Species preservation: New milestones for resurrection of Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger)

Umesh Prasad -
The thylacine de-extinction project announced in 2022 has achieved new milestones in generation of the highest quality ancient genome, marsupial genome editing and new...
BIOLOGY

2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of “microRNA and new Principle of Gene regulation”

Rajeev Soni -
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and...
BIOLOGY

Fossils of Ancient Chromosomes with intact 3D Structure of Extinct Woolly Mammoth  

SCIEU Team -
Fossils of ancient chromosomes with intact three-dimensional structure belonging to extinct woolly mammoth have been discovered from 52,000 old sample preserved in Siberian permafrost....
BIOLOGY

Fork Fern Tmesipteris Oblanceolata has The Largest Genome on Earth  

SCIEU Team -
Tmesipteris oblanceolata , a type of fork fern native to New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific has been found to have the genome size of...
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German Cockroach Originated in India or Myanmar  

SCIEU Team -
The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) is world’s most common cockroach pest found in human households worldwide. These insects have an affinity for human dwellings...
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