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Pitt Biologist Receives $2 Million NSF Grant for Research About Genetic...
Research will provide clues to the genetic diversity of 30-80% of all plants worldwide read more
View ArticleNew Study Is First to Show That Pesticides Can Induce Morphological Changes...
When exposed to the popular herbicide Roundup®, tadpoles change shape in ways that are normally induced by predators PITTSBURGH— The world’s most popular weed killer, Roundup®, can cause amphibians to...
View ArticlePitt Biologists Find ‘Surprising’ Number of Unknown Viruses in Sewage
Researchers developed new computational tools to characterize viruses; published this week in <EM>mBio</EM> PITTSBURGH—Though viruses are the most abundant life form on Earth, our...
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Leaky Genes Put Evolution on the Fast Track, Pitt and UW-Madison Researchers...
The team traced the development of a unique feature in a species of fruit fly that began with low-level gene activity and became a distinct feature in a mere four mutations as an existing gene took on...
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Pitt-Stanford Research Suggests Aimless Proteins Crucial to Disease
The team reports in <em>PNAS</em> that Toxoplasma gondii—the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis—cannot cause disease without the help of ROP5, a protein that lost its original function...
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Hunt for the Genetic Roots of Evolution Earns Pitt Researcher The Honor of...
Pitt professor of biological sciences Mark Rebeiz searches for the moment when a gene mutates to produce evolutionary novelties, from an elephant’s trunk to the horn on a beetle PITTSBURGH—How did the...
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