Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital role in gene expression.

DNA tech offers both data storage and computing functions Date: August 23, 2024 Source: North Carolina State University Summary: Researchers have demonstrated a technology capable of a suite of ...

Unexpected slowdowns or spikes in this signal were often interpreted as knots in DNA. But now, a new study published Aug. 12 ...

The researchers sought to improve the function of OGG1, an enzyme that repairs oxidative DNA damage, implicated in aging and diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

Children living in war-torn countries not only suffer from poor mental health outcomes, but war may cause adverse biological changes at the DNA level, which could have lifelong health impacts ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

Its functions are essential for head assembly, genome packaging, neck and tail attachment, and genome ejection. The focus of this study was to determine the functions of the portal at the molecular ...

They found that hsp70 DNA of heat-shocked cells migrated faster in a gel than hsp70 genes of non-heat-shocked cells. These findings suggested that heat shocking induced changes in the chromatin ...