Cartoon of CRISPR in cockroaches. Credit: Shirai et al./Cell Reports Methods According to a paper published in the journal Cell Reports Methods by Cell Press…
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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.…
Illustration of human cancer cells. A team of researchers led by Yale UniversityEstablished in 1701, Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in…
New research shows that sperm production is critical to how regions of the genome are re-organized within and between chromosomes during evolution. In particular, inherited…
According to a new study, hunter-gatherers made use of open woodland conditions in the millennia before Stonehenge monuments were built. Research study investigates habitat conditions…
Using sophisticated computer modeling, a team of physicists and chemists has shown that errors in DNA reokication can arise due to the strange rules of…
Cell nucleus illustration. University of California Riverside-led study identifies how blood stem cells maintain their fate. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that specify and maintain the…
Conceptual image of meteoroids delivering nucleobases to ancient Earth. The nucleobases are represented by structural diagrams with hydrogen atoms as white spheres, carbon as black,…
MIT researchers have discovered that chromatin spends most of its time in a partially looped state (middle). Fully formed loops (right) occur only three to…
A new study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital discovered that patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) had a higher number of somatic…
Despite enormous disparities in longevity and body mass, new research has revealed that the number of genetic mutations acquired by 16 species is similar across…
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…
Overlook of Tombs in high altitudes. Excavated from Jierzankale site in Tashikuergan, Kashi region. Credit: YAN Xuguang, Kashi Daily Xinjiang, in northwest China, lays at…
MIT biology professor Yukiko Yamashita has spent much of her career exploring how asymmetrical cell divisions occur. This type of cell division allows cells to…
Alongside the newly updated human genome, which fills in long-standing gaps to fully spell out the more than 3 billion letters that compose our genetic…
Breakthrough techniques in living cells upend field. Two studies provide a radically new picture of how bacterial cells continually repair damaged sections (lesions) in their…
Revolutionary tool will meet future pandemics with accelerated response. A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than one…
Sequencing the last 8% of the human genome has taken 20 years and the invention of new techniques for reading long sequences of the genetic…
The image depicts how the 911 clamp is loaded onto DNA. Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Huilin Li, Van Andel Institute When something goes wrong during…
Reconstruction of an Avar-period armored horseman based on Grave 1341/1503 of the Derecske-Bikás-dűlő site (Déri Museum, Debrecen). Credit: © Ilona C. Kiss Multidisciplinary research team…