Fly Researchers at Duke University Find Another Layer to the Code of Life
Rare pieces of genetic code may serve as another way to control cellular machinery. A new investigation into the way different tissues read information from…
Rare pieces of genetic code may serve as another way to control cellular machinery. A new investigation into the way different tissues read information from…
Researchers at EMBL Heidelberg found that inversions in the human genome are more common than previously thought, which impacts our understanding of certain genetic diseases….
A study led by researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Kent uncovers how the genome three-dimensional structure of male…
Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish – even to scientists who study them – are wonderfully weird creatures. Known as the soft-bodied or coleoid cephalopods, they have…
University of California Riverside-led study identifies how blood stem cells maintain their fate. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that specify and maintain the identities of the…
MIT research finds genome loops don’t last long in cells; theories of how loops control gene expression may need to be revised. In human chromosomes,…
Scientists have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome…
Repetitive DNA sequences around centromere show history of human genetic variation. Scientists lied a little when they revealed the entire sequencing of the human genome…
Parts of the human genome now available to study for the first time are important for understanding genetic diseases, human diversity, and evolution. The first…
The International Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) has officially launched and released 15 new reference genomes representing all five vertebrate classes – mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians,…
Unlocking the mysteries of chromatin – a mix of RNA, DNA and protein that serves to package and protect DNA – could lead to important…
Researchers at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have determined how satellite DNA, considered to be “junk DNA,”…
For the first time, scientists of the German Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Goethe University, and the University of Lund in Sweden have deciphered…
Because liver cancer is particularly diverse, genetically, and prone to relapse, identifying biomarkers that can predict disease progression is a critical goal in the fight…
A team of researchers led by scientists in Vienna, Dresden, and Heidelberg has decoded the entire genetic information of the Mexican salamander axolotl. The axolotl…
A sugar called Neu5Gc, present in red meat, some fish, and dairy products, is related to the appearance of spontaneous tumors in humans. Researchers at…
University of Bristol research has revealed how cells rebuild their nucleus and organize their genome when they divide – a discovery which could have major…
In a newly published study, researchers from Yale University report they have created a more precise and efficient technology to edit the genomes of living…