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1 week agoCan a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers
Asexual reproduction in mice is unsustainable due to accumulating mutations, limiting the potential for successful cloning.
Scientists in the laboratory of Rendong Yang, PhD, associate professor of Urology, have developed a new large language model that can interpret transcriptomic data in cancer cell lines more accurately than conventional approaches, as detailed in a recent study published in Nature Communications. Long-read RNA sequencing technologies have transformed transcriptomics research by detecting complex RNA splicing and gene fusion events that have often been missed by conventional short-read RNA-sequencing methods.
In the originally published version of this article, Extended Data Fig. 4 contained inadvertent duplications introduced during figure assembly: panel 4c (the bottom of the second column) erroneously reused images from panel 4a (the bottom of the third column); panel 4c (the upper panel of the third column) erroneously reused images from panel 4a (the upper panel of the rightmost column);
A virus that sickens marine mammals has been detected in Arctic waters for the first time. Scientists used drones armed with petri dishes to collect samples of blow - the air and mucus whales expel from their blowholes - from whales in northern Norway. The team identified cetacean morbillivirus in samples from humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae) and one sperm whale ( Physeter macrocephalus), though the humpbacks showed no symptoms of disease.