The transcriptome encompasses all of the RNA molecules in a sample - be that a whole organism or a single cell. It includes messenger RNA and noncoding RNA and can be different in different body tissues and at different times according to which genes are active when the sample is taken.
Changes in ovarian tissue, not just egg quantity and quality, may play a role in the decline of female fertility with age, new research suggests...
Extremely advanced ageing and poor health are not intrinsically linked, according to a study of the longest-lived supercentenarian...
A 'multiomic' test could detect biological differences between patients with and without ovarian cancer...
The 2024 winner of the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal lecture, Professor Matthew Cobb of the University of Manchester, discussed the life's work of Francis Crick...
Researchers have identified a previously unreported population of human stem-like cells capable of regenerating retinal tissue and potentially promoting vision recovery...
Male fetuses and adult sons of women who smoke while pregnant exhibit more changes in gene expression than females...
A gene has been discovered to cause an increase in an individual's body fat percentage, with its suppression in mice leading to lower body fat percentages...
Cambridge researchers have mapped out a detailed trajectory of human placental development and described its interaction with the maternal uterus...
Sertoli cells, which are crucial to sperm formation, have been recreated in the lab using pluripotent stem cells, to help study the earliest stages of sex determination...
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