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Publisher of the ROAD1 paper
Breeders have spent decades looking for drought-tolerance genes that don't cost yield in normal years. Most candidates fail half the test. Rice lines carrying a newly described gene, ROAD1, yielded up to 34.75% more grain under field drought with no growth penalty when conditions were normal.
Updated 6 days ago
Publisher of the study, available online October 15, 2026
AstraZeneca's genomics team has scanned 467,152 UK Biobank genomes for structural variants — the large DNA rearrangements most studies skip — and tied them to disease and blood proteins. It is the largest phenome-wide map of structural variants to date.
Published both papers online September 25, 2026
For decades, structural biologists had to purify molecules before they could image them. The ribosome's structure was solved from isolated particles, frozen in test tubes. Two papers in Cell now show the same machinery at work inside intact bacterial cells, exposing coordination that was only theorized before.
Updated Sep 26
Published the study
Pancreatic cancer ignores nearly every approved immunotherapy, and the new KRAS inhibitors shrink tumors only until resistance emerges. A study published online this week in Cell pairs those inhibitors with a designer mimic of the immune signal IL-21 — and in mice, the combination cleared pancreatic tumors and kept them clear for months.
Updated Sep 24
A single-celled organism found in a California hot spring can eat and reproduce at 63°C (145°F), a temperature that kills every other known complex life form. The amoeba, named Incendiamoeba cascadensis, breaks the 60°C record that had stood for decades.
Updated Sep 23
Publisher of the study
Researchers have isolated the stem cell that builds tendons and ligaments in both mice and humans, for the first time. The cell, identified by a specific set of surface markers, self-renews and produces every other cell type in these tissues.
Updated Sep 8
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