An experiment conducted by HudsonAlpha and collaborators was featured last week on AL.com.
The study revealed why bacteria behave differently in the microgravity environment of space. Results were published online Nov. 2 in PLOS ONE.
What scientists found was that genes associated with starvation were “overexpressed” compared to the same e coli on Earth. And the findings aren’t limited to space, researchers said.
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The Undiagnosed Diseases Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)...
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Scientists at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology secured a grant to create a high quality map of relatively unexplored genetic regions of the brain, specifically looking for the effects of Alzheimer disease. With this new funding, researchers hope to explore the full range of brain changes that people with Alzheimer disease experience.
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