Genes, Volume 14, Issue 12

Tea is an important cash crop worldwide, and its nutritional value has led to its high economic benefits. Tea anthracnose is a common disease of tea plants that seriously affects food safety and yield and has a far-reaching impact on the sustainable...

Color can be an indicator of plant health, quality, and productivity, and is useful to researchers to understand plant nutritional content in their studies. Color may be related to chlorophyll content and photosynthetic activity and provides informat...

Platelet count has been associated with blood pressure, but whether this association reflects causality remains unclear. To strengthen the evidence, we conducted a traditional observational analysis in the Lifelines Cohort Study (n = 167,785), and pe...

Coptis chinensis is a perennial herb of the Ranunculaceae family. The isoquinoline alkaloid is the main active component of C. chinensis, mainly exists in its rhizomes and has high clinical application potential. The in vitro synthesis of isoquinolin...

MICAL2 is an actin-regulatory protein that functions through redox modification of actin. Nuclear localized MICAL2 triggers the disassembly of nuclear actin, which subsequently leads to nuclear retention of the actin-binding transcriptional coregulat...

Puerarin, a class of isoflavonoid compounds concentrated in the roots of Puerarias, has antipyretic, sedative, and coronary blood-flow-increasing properties. Although the biosynthetic pathways of puerarin have been investigated by previous researcher...

Since the introduction of new molecular techniques, the diagnostic landscape of soft tissue and bone tumors has expanded greatly over the past few years. The use of new molecular techniques has led to the identification of new genetic alterations and...

Missense variation in genomes can affect protein structure stability and, in turn, the cell physiology behavior. Predicting the impact of those variations is relevant, and the best-performing computational tools exploit the protein structure informat...

Ionizing radiation can induce different types of DNA lesions, leading to genomic instability and ultimately cell death. Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, a major modality in cancer treatment, harnesses the genotoxic potential of radiation to target...

Single cell RNAseq has been a big leap in many areas of biology. Rather than investigating gene expression on a whole organism level, this technology enables scientists to get a detailed look at rare single cells or within their cell population of in...