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09 Dec 2016
When comparing cloned animal embryos and embryos that come about as a result of artificial insemination, there is a difference in gene expression at the moment implantation occurs in the uterus for more than 5 000 genes. Researchers at INRA and the University of California are shining the spotlight on this critical step for the survival of cloned embryos in cattle. Published in the 8 December 2016 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, these findings are furthering knowledge of hitherto poorly-understood mechanisms that govern interactions between cloned embryos and the uterus. They may hold the key to improving cloning in mammals.
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17 Nov 2016
Inactivation of the Topaz1 gene in mice leads to infertility of males and may explain some cases of infertility in humans.
14 Nov 2016
Scientists in the Joint Research Unit for Virology* and their partners have offered some answers to this question. For the first time, they have demonstrated that a protein in the Borna virus is able to disturb the formation of neurons in the human brain. Their results support the hypothesis that some neuropsychiatric diseases could be of viral origin. These findings have been published in PLOS Pathogens.
21 Sep 2016
Pig is a main livestock species for food production worldwide and is also widely used as an animal model in biomedical research. Today we know that the many types of bacteria that inhabit the gut are important for health and disease. Knowledge of the genes of these bacteria and their function therefore constitutes the first step towards a more comprehensive understanding of how bacteria in the gut affect health and disease.
09 Sep 2016
Harry Sokol, a researcher specialised in the study of inflammatory bowel diseases, has been awarded the prestigious Starting Grant for 2016 by the European Research Council (ERC).
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