Researchers find a gut-brain connection for social development
To learn to socialize, zebrafish need to trust their gut.
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BMC Genomics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of genome-scale analysis, functional genomics, and proteomics. It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field.
To learn to socialize, zebrafish need to trust their gut.
Nov 1, 2022
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Foodborne pathogens are very common and usually benign, but certain virulent strains of pathogens can result in severe disease and even death. Distinguishing specific strains of pathogens can help scientists better understand ...
Sep 2, 2020
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Research on the gut metagenome of patients with Crohn's disease elucidates how it influences the taxonomic and functional composition of intestinal microbiota. Among the most common changes are the decrease in the diversity ...
Jan 31, 2019
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A genome bank for the Japanese population can better identify rare genetic variants and disease susceptibilities by adding samples from distant areas of the country.
Oct 15, 2018
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There is an urgent need to develop a vaccine to prevent gonorrhea infection due to rapidly increasing incidence and growing antibiotic resistance. BUSM researchers (in collaboration with University of Toronto researchers) ...
Sep 4, 2018
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When University of Colorado Cancer Center researcher, Jing Hong Wang, MD, PhD, found more than 1,000 genetic translocations in her mouse model of B cell lymphoma, she assumed her lab had made a mistake. To rule out experimental ...
Oct 27, 2016
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Bacillus cereus – a common food bacterium – can no longer hide. The food industry has a new tool for identifying specific isolates behind foodborne illness that utilizes the bacteria's own genomes, reports Cornell food ...
Aug 10, 2016
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A team of scientists from the IBCh RAS Laboratory of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity has developed VDJviz – a multifunctional browser designed to work with large volumes of data produced using modern DNA sequence analysis. ...
Jul 28, 2016
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Any kid who pulls on a lizard tail knows it can drop off to avoid capture, but how they regrow a new tail remains a mystery. Now, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Arizona State University ...
May 6, 2016
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Until relatively recently, the dogma in neuroscience was that neurons, including the eye's photoreceptor cells, rods and cones, do not regenerate. This is the reason that nerve damage is thought to be so grave. More recent ...
Mar 18, 2016
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