The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the ...

Department of Regulatory Bioorganic Chemistry, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN), Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Osaka, Ibaraki 567-0047, Japan Institute for Protein ...

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The Old Crow mammoth's DNA was in the oldest group of samples in the analysis, described as "deep-time DNA," but it wasn't the oldest. The oldest DNA, from Russia, was around 1.3 million years old.

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NEW DELHI: Antibiotic use is the top reason for side effects among people, a latest national survey has said. However, the survey conducted on over 17,000 people in 303 Indian districts found that ...

In the documentary, narrator Dallas Campbell explained that scientists had been able to use DNA to identify several members of Tutankhamun's immediate family. But the analysis revealed something ...