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  Scientists Find a Key Mechanism of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase in Pre-mRNA Splicing

  Researchers from Dr. CAO Xiaofeng’s group in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found a key molecular mechanism for the role of AtPRMT5 in pre-mRNA splicing.

  17 May 2016

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  Chinese Researchers Find Direct Evidence that Zika Causes Microcephaly in Mice

  Chinese researchers said Wednesday they have found direct evidence that Zika infection causes microcephaly, a birth defect marked by an abnormally small head, in mouse experiments. Mouse fetuses injected with the Zika virus and carried to term within their pregnant mothers display the characteristic features of microcephaly, they reported in the...

  12 May 2016

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  Centromere Behavior Has Great Impact on Generation of New Wheat Germplasm

  Dr. HAN Fangpu’s group in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences studied De Novo centromere formation and centromeric sequence expansion in wheat and its wide hybrids, and found the centromere behavior has great impact on generation of new wheat germplasm

  12 May 2016

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  Fetal Mice with Zika Infection Get Microcephaly

  Zika virus disrupts neural progenitor development and leads to microcephaly in mice

  12 May 2016