RNA tweak: Engineering rice and potato plants boosts yields by 50%

RNA tweak: Engineering rice and potato plants boosts yields by 50%

Louise Lerner | University of Chicago | 
Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, announced a group of ...
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Air pollution kills more than HIV, tuberculosis and smoking

University of Chicago | 
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores more than any time in recent history how important it is to protect public health. Yet, as countries ...
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Are obesity, diabetes and other diseases treatable using gene-therapy skin grafts?

University of Chicago | 
A research team based at the University of Chicago has overcome challenges that have limited gene therapy and demonstrated how ...

Origin of mammalian pregnancy revealed by genomic ‘parasites’

Kevin Jiang | University of Chicago | 
An international team of scientists has identified large-scale genetic changes that marked the evolution of pregnancy in mammals. They found ...

Researchers ID gene that encodes two proteins from one sequence of mRNA

University of Chicago | 
The following is an excerpt. In a study that could change the way scientists view the process of protein production ...
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