Lemon Frost Leopard Gecko Skin Tumors Traced to Cancer Gene
A California reptile shop began breeding Mr. Frosty in 2016 and produced a colony of lemon-yellow leopard geckos. The color variety was known as Lemon Frost. Credit: L. Guo et …
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Scientists Resurrect “Forgotten” Genus of Symbiotic Algae Living in Marine Animals
“Yellow cells” of the symbiotic algae, Philozoon collosum, isolated from the soft coral, Capnella gaboensis, collected off the east coast of southern Australia. Credit: Matthew R. Nitschke In the late …
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Tackling Food Allergies at the Source: Developing a Non-GMO Soybean Without the Allergenic Protein
An array of soybeans from the U.S. National Soybean Collection in Urbana, Illinois. Credit: Eliot Herman Food allergies are a big problem. About 7% of children and 2% of adults …
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Parkinson’s, Cancer, and Type 2 Diabetes Share a Key Element That Drives Disease
Parkin protein (green signal) is in a different part of the cell than the mitochondria (red signal) at time 0 (left image) but then co-localizes with the mitochondria after 60 …
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Diversity of Tiny Bobtail Squid Driven by Major Ancient Biogeographic Events
Bobtail and bottletail squids are tiny marine invertebrates that are found throughout the world’s oceans and are useful model animals for research There are 68 recognized species of bobtail squid …
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Raucous Barks Reverberating in the Night Lead to the Discovery of New Species
The raucous calls of tree hyraxes — small, herbivorous mammals — reverberate through the night in the forests of West and Central Africa, but their sound differs depending on the …
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Sonothermogenetics Can Control Behavior by Stimulating a Specific Target Deep in the Brain
Credit: Washington University In St. Louis New Tool Combines Ultrasound, Genetics to Activate Deep Brain Neurons Neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy have had some treatment success with …
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How Information Beyond the Genetic Sequence Is Encoded in Plant Sperm and Passed Down the Generations
CLSY3 (fused with a yellow fluorescent protein) is specifically expressed in the tapetal cells surrounding the germ cells. Credit: John Innes Centre Hereditary information is passed from parent to offspring …
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