The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

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Scientists and physicians can better assess precision genome editing technology using a new method made public today by St.

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

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What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

As intelligence moves off screens and into the physical world, we have a rare opportunity to shape how people and machines ...

The research represents a major step forward in revealing how the three dimensional form of DNA shapes the way human biology functions. In a major step toward understanding how the physical form of ...