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Scientists Unearth the Oldest DNA Ever Found

Sep 27, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Katherine Irving |Niki Spahich

DNA fragments recovered from an ice sheet in northern Greenland represent the oldest DNA ever found, a group of Danish scientists reported December 7, 2022 in Nature. The team dated the samples to around 2.4 million years ago, making the DNA sequenced nearly twice the age of the previously oldest DNA, which was recovered from a Siberian mammoth bone. “It’s a tour de force.
A Gene Therapy to Treat the FOXG1 Brain Disorder

Sep 11, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Niki Spahich

Soo-Kyung Lee, a neurodevelopmental biologist from the State University of New York at Buffalo, built her career studying transcription factors important for brain development and understanding how their dysregulation leads to human disease. When her daughter, Yuna Lee, exhibited neurological symptoms as a baby, Soo-Kyung Lee’s life and research pivoted in response to her child’s diagnosis. “[She had] a lot of brain scans, then blood work, and many different tests.
Slow Bacterial Growth Enables Antibiotic Resistance

Aug 26, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Niki Spahich |Deanna Elise MacNeil

Salmonella living within macrophages can survive antibiotic treatment and potentially give rise to resistance by two different mechanisms that slow or arrest their growth. iStockBacteria that are resistant to antibiotics thrive in the face of drug treatment, which can lead to life threatening, often incurable infections. Other bacteria can exist in a pre-resistant state.
Multiomics Enables Integrated Biological Analysis

Aug 19, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Niki Spahich

Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins present at cellular and systemic levels.
What Is Proteomics?

Aug 1, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Sejal Davla |Niki Spahich

Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins present at cellular and systemic levels.
Getting to the Root of the Plant Microbiota

Jul 8, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Niki Spahich

In plants, sugar transport and microbial community composition go hand in hand. Upon first glance, plant roots seem distinct from animal guts.
Uncovering Secrets of Historic Paintings in the Modern Laboratory

Jun 26, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Niki Spahich

Painters leave their mark on history through the artworks that they leave behind. Underneath the paint layers, there are hidden molecular features that can illuminate the artistic process, reveal historic societal factors, and indicate the damage done to these unique pieces over the years.
Discovering the Functions of Noncoding Sequence Variants

Jun 12, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Niki Spahich

After a postdoctoral research position with CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang, Neville Sanjana set out to target numerous genes at once with the nascent technology, developing pooled CRISPR screens.1,2 Now a geneticist and bioengineer at the New York Genome Center and New York University, Sanjana developed a new technique that combines CRISPR with genome-wide association study (GWAS) data and single cell technology to explore the effects of hundreds of variants in parallel.3 Using STING-seq, short...
Developing Homogenous 3D Neural Cultures for High Throughput Screening

May 23, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Niki Spahich

Drug use disorders are increasing worldwide, with few individuals receiving treatment for these conditions.1 In particular, abuse of prescription opioids and the rise in popularity of the synthetic opioid fentanyl has led to an opioid crisis in North America.2 To battle this epidemic, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative in 2018.
TS Digest Issue | May 2024 | The Shape of Cilia

May 1, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Meenakshi Prabhune |Hannah Thomasy |Shelby Bradford |Niki Spahich

From the Editor| ArticleScientific Conferences Get Virtually RealOn the first day of one of the biggest conferences of the year, the website clocked more than 20,000 registrants. But for once, I was in no rush to grab a seat for the keynote. One minute before the talk started, I plugged right in from the comfort of my ergonomic office chair. With the rise of online portals, it was only a matter of time before we submitted to a virtual world.