WRITER FUEL: A new study has revealed that "junk DNA" descended from ancient viruses could play a key role in controlling genes.

https://www.limfic.com/2025/12/27/writer-fuel-ancient-viruses-in-our-dna-help-turn-genes-on-and-off/

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The history of #biological thought has long been dominated by a tension between the deterministic rigidity of the genotype and the fluid adaptability of the phenotype. For much of the 20th century, the Modern Synthesis emphasized the primacy of #genetic mutation and natural selection, often relegating #environmental influence to a mere background filter against which #genes were selected. However. . .
#WhatIs #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Neuroscience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/wi12252501.html
What Is: Biological Plasticity

An Exhaustive Analysis of Biological Plasticity Across Evolutionary, Developmental, and Neurophysiological Scales

Photographer made it his life work to track down amazing doppelgängers. Here are his best finds.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/doppelgangers-photo-project

Phages use small RNA to hijack bacterial cells and boost replication

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #antibiotic #bacteria #Bacterial #Cell] #DNA #E.coli #genes #Genetic #IL #Israel #Molecule #Protein #Research #RNA #therapy #Virus
https://www.newsbeep.com/319524/

Gestational diabetes alters the placenta at the molecular level, study reveals

Gestational diabetes can cause a multitude of complications in the offspring, but to date, the reasons are incompletely…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #diabetes #genes #Genetic #gestationaldiabetes #IL #Israel #Medicine #placenta #pregnancy #Protein #RNA #Splicing
https://www.newsbeep.com/318672/

#Polarbears are rewiring their own #genetics to survive a warming #climate
"Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century," with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050,
Researchers say first documented case of rising temperatures driving #genetic change in a #mammal, offer a "glimmer of hope" for #Arctic species
In slightly warmer south Greenland, #genes linked to heat stress, aging and metabolism behaved differently from those in northern bears.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/greenland/polar-bears-adapting-survive-warming-climate-rcna248805
Polar bears are rewiring their own genetics to survive a warming climate

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive

NBC News

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab

What House Sparrow Genes Tell Us About Ourselves

"Did these birds evolve special adaptations that help them live in such close association with humans for so long?"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#sparrows #ornithology #genes #evolution #ecology #agriculture https://grrlscientist.medium.com/what-house-sparrow-genes-tell-us-about-ourselves-169ad9fbddab