“You share 50 percent of your DNA with each of your parents. But with bananas, we share about 50 percent of our genes,” Mike ...

Chinese research team's investigation into cold-tolerant rice varieties revives largely-forgotten 19th century 'giraffe ...

Researchers still do not have a comprehensive picture of the factors that influence gene expression in human cancers.

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

Vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with aging, a large study shows. But ...

Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two orangutans to predict where DNA sequences might form alternative structures ...

Image: Adobe Stock. The technology, called 5-base long-read HiFi genome sequencing, can read DNA molecules that are 100 times longer than normal sequencing technologies, which makes it more ...

We also talk about today’s DNA-related advances that use machine learning to design tailored Cas9 proteins, and multiple sequencing technologies to study mutation rates in four generations of ...

in which letters are inserted or deleted from the normal DNA sequence. They found unusual patterns of “indel” mutations in cancers which had faulty DNA repair mechanisms – known as “post ...

Thanks to the freely variable sequence of the four DNA base pairs ... its results can still be read out using normal DNA sequencers. The fast reading technique using nanopore sequencers also ...

Unlike the structured replication of normal DNA, ecDNA replicates in a rapid ... the National Genomics Research Library, whole genome sequence data from nearly 15,000 cancer patients across ...

The sequences of the four nucleobases in DNA ... called half-turns, that resemble normal DNA, but the way they are arranged makes switchback DNA unique. Typically, DNA is a double helix with ...