Vanderbilt University researchers used neutrons at ORNL to reveal the hydrogen bonding patterns between water molecules (shown in blue) and DNA. The findings could help…
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In an unprecedented atlas, researchers begin to map how genes are turned on or off in different cells, a step toward better understanding the connections…
Woolly mammoths persisted in Siberia until the mid-Holocene. Credit: Mauricio Anton New research shows that humans had a significant role in the extinction of woolly…
Yekaterina “Kate” Shulgina was a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, looking for a short computational biology project so she…
DNA and associated cellular machinery is gathered and organized by certain non-coding RNAs, each region shown in a different colored jellybean-shape in this model. Credit:…
The evolution hotspots are caused by a tangle in the DNA that can disrupt the DNA replication machinery, resulting in mutations. Credit: cooperr Researchers from…
A team of physicists has discovered how DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each…
Evolutionary genomics approach identifies genes that enable plants to live in the Atacama Desert, offering clues for engineering more resilient crops to face climate change.…
Tracing the Impact of a Long-Lost Relative on Modern Bread Wheat Genetic detective work has uncovered an obscure ancestor of modern bread wheat, in a…
Photograph of Legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull c.1885. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution A man’s claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native…
A trio of woolly mammoths trudges over snow covered hills. Behind them, mountains with snow covered peaks rise above dark green forests of fir trees.…
Our DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix.…
Knocking out transposon promoter leads to pup death in mice; similar promoters found in many mammals. Nearly half of our DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is…
The “ray gun” instrument, a spectroradiometer. Credit: Courtesy of Lance Stasinski In Star Trek, characters carry a little handheld device called a tricorder that they can…
Credit: Dr. Tim Blower, Durham University A new study led by a team of bioscientists from Durham University, UK, in collaboration with University of Liverpool,…
A model of the human nuclear pore complex depicts the major proteins that make up the pore’s three rings. Top to bottom: The Cytoplasmic Ring…
The weird and wonderful genome of dinoflagellates looks nothing like other eukaryotic genomes. The genome of single-celled plankton, known as dinoflagellates, is organized in an…
Researchers propose faster method for recording data to DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around…
A new body of research, published in Nature Communications, suggests synthetic biology could help to better characterize complex microbial communities, unlocking their potential for industrial…
This year is the 20th anniversary of sequencing the human genome. In honor of this event, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from…