Quadruple-helix DNA structure. Credit: Imperial College London New probes allow scientists to see four-stranded DNA interacting with molecules inside living human cells, unraveling its role…
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Researchers have found a simple way to eliminate almost all sequencing errors produced by a widely used portable DNA sequencer, potentially enabling scientists working outside the…
Biochemists use protein engineering to transfer photocaging groups to DNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the basis of life on earth. The function of DNA is…
Method will help researchers better understand mitochondrial DNA diseases. Scientists from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer have developed a simple, high-throughput method for transferring isolated…
Newly described chemical reaction could have assembled DNA building blocks before life forms and their enzymes existed. Discovery boosts theory that life on our planet…
The complex dance of electrical signals inside a cell holds the key to many questions about diseases and disorders, but has been difficult to understand—so…
In 1533, the Bom Jesus — a Portuguese trading vessel carrying 40 tons of cargo including gold, silver, copper and more than 100 elephant tusks…
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, has identified a specific genetic target that could help explain the tremendous variation…
Three roughly 2,000-year-old corn cobs from the El Gigante rock shelter site in Honduras. These corn cobs were genetically analyzed by an international team of…
Aspyn Palatnick holding the world’s first mobile genetics laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s 125th anniversary Open House. The combination of the new iPhone app,…
A new CRISPR-based test for COVID-19 developed by researchers at Gladstone Institutes, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco essentially converts a smartphone camera into a…
Genes that give plant nucleus its shape discovered, also regulate copper tolerance. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have identified how the architecture of the…
Viruses are tiny invaders that cause a wide range of diseases, from rabies to tomato spotted wilt virus and, most recently, COVID-19 in humans. But…
Annual maps of population densities of brown bears, grey wolves, and wolverines in Scandinavia from 2012 to 2018. Credit: Staffan Widstrand Photography (bear); Kjetil Kolbjørnsrud…
[embedded content]An artist’s interpretation of the creation of two cell atlases that track gene expression and chromatin accessibility during the development of human cell types…
A microfluidic chip with individual droplets shown in different colors. Each droplet contains material from single cells and delivers it for single cell omics analyses.…
An illustration showing how highly nanostructured 3-D superconducting materials can be created based on DNA self-assembly. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Complex 3D nanoscale architectures based…
A global study of ancient dog DNA, led by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, University of Oxford, University of Vienna and archaeologists from more…
Artist’s impression of young Earth. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab In the search for the chemical origins of life, researchers have…
Shedding light on human brain development. Credit: ©Dexheimer/IMBA Many of the fundamental principles in biology and essentially all pathways regulating development were identified in so-called…