A study in Mobile DNA reports that two foundational genome resources, Repbase and Dfam, are being unified into a single open framework for studying transposable elements. The move will release the full Repbase collection under a public-domain license and bring its core curation team into the Dfam effort. The announcement matters because transposable elements, often…
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have identified a brain-cell signaling pathway that helps explain how semaglutide drives weight loss in mice, according to an official announcement from NIH researchers. The work points to a possible way to extend the effects of GLP-1 drugs, while also giving scientists a closer look at why responses…
A study in Nature Medicine warns that Oropouche virus has likely spread far more widely than reported across Latin America and the Caribbean. By combining mathematical modeling, historical outbreak data and blood bank analysis, researchers estimated that major outbreaks from 1960 to 2025 caused about 9.4 million infections. The finding sharply raises the public health…
A study in Nature Communications has mapped how certain cyanobacteria run oxygen-producing photosynthesis on far-red light, a dim glow near the edge of human vision. The research, led by scientists at Imperial College London, identifies where the unusual pigments sit inside the water-splitting machinery and assigns a specific absorbed wavelength to each one. The finding…
