An international team of researchers has taken an important step toward understanding how gene expression is controlled across the human genome. The research is published in the journal Nature. The ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

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Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest ...

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Modern diagnostic methods allow growers to detect pathogens earlier and identify disease pressure with far greater precision ...

Zettabytes—that’s 10 21 bytes—of data are currently generated every year. All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is ...

This image depicts the chemical structure of cytosine. It shows a hexagonal ring with nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3, and a primary amine group attached to carbon 4. The two remaining positions ...

Most DNA extraction protocols were originally developed for manual pipetting and later adapted for liquid handlers. In ...