Eastern California’s Mono Lake has no outflow, allowing salts to build up over time. The high salts in this carbonate-rich lake can grow into pillars.…
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Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete ancient human genome from a 5,700-year-old birch pitch. The image is an artistic…
This is the image of the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) specimen. Credit: Marc Durà The lack of signals of population decline found on its genome…
A 3D-printed plastic rabbit. The plastic contains DNA molecules in which the printing instructions have been encoded. Credit: ETH Zurich / Julian Koch Living beings…
A visualization of the FACT protein. Credit: Liu et al. 2019 Scientists Now Know What DNA’s Chaperone Looks Like Researchers have discovered the structure of…
Scientists have found there are likely millions of ways of storing biological information. But why does biology do it the way it does? Scientists computed…
Researchers identified changes in the genetic code used to translate DNA into protein. Credit: Tomislav Alajbeg Crack open a biology textbook and you will find…
Molecular simulation of an engineered aerolysin pore (light blue color) embedded into a membrane bilayer (cream color) and translocating DNA (red color). Credit: Chan Cao,…
This picture shows two koalas in a tree. Credit: Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary In animals, infections are fought by the immune system. Studies on an unusual…
Possible Model for How Biological Polymers May Have Formed during the Origin of Life on Earth. Credit: Bracher Lab, Saint Louis University Uncovering how the…
The molecules of life are twisted. But how those familiar strands in DNA’s double helix manage to replicate without being tangled up has been hard…
Participants and faculty collaborate at the 2019 Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) workshop at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Credit: Photo by…
A new type of drug that blocks one of cancer’s key evolutionary escape routes from chemotherapy could be used to treat aggressive breast cancers, a…
Neuron targeted using the SATI technology. Credit: Salk Institute. Salk scientists develop a new genome-editing tool that could help treat many disorders caused by gene…
To a large extent, DNA methylation, which regulates vital cell functions, is still a mystery to the scientific world. Now, scientists have developed a method…
Along the genome, proteins form liquid-like droplets that appear to boost the expression of particular genes. In recent years, MIT scientists have developed a new…
A new study looks at how three-banded panther worms are able to regenerate their whole bodies and how this regeneration could be applied to humans.…