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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/

#WriterFuel #StoryIdeas #Genes #Genetics #DNA #Viruses

Scientific Frontline 2d ago

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

Sharing the best of humanity with the world, one story at a time.5d ago

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

News Beep Dec 19

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/

News Beep Dec 18

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/

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Dec 16

#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