Author: Work & Theory

First-ever oat pangenome may put climate-smart oats on the breakfast menu

Original story from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Complexity of the oat’s DNA has long resisted detailed study; this first-ever oat pangenome was built by an international consortium that included researchers at McGill’s Macdonald Campus. Researchers have cracked one of agriculture’s...

New drug combo for relapsed neuroblastoma shows promise in the lab

Original story from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research (Sydney, Australia). Researchers have identified a drug that can overcome treatment resistance in relapsed neuroblastoma in animal models. A discovery from Australian researchers could lead to better treatment for children with...

Switching gears: novel platform spills secrets of transcription’s speed regulation

Thanks to a first-of-its-kind platform, we are starting to understand how the molecular engine responsible for transcription in mammals controls its speed. A team of researchers from The Rockefeller University (NY, USA) and Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center (Shanghai, China) has invented a...