Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

Evo 2 models DNA sequence and enables applications across the central dogma, spanning molecular and cellular scales. Credit: ...

Evo 2 models DNA sequence and enables applications across the central dogma, spanning molecular and cellular scales. Credit: bioRxiv (2025). DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.18.638918 ...

Prokaryotic genome assembly is the process of reconstructing a complete, accurate, and contiguous representation of a bacterium’s or archaeon’s DNA from fragmented sequencing data. This process is ...

The Evo 2 preprint described three design tasks that span different levels of genomic complexity: 1) mitochondrial genome 2) prokaryotic genome of Mycoplasma genitalium, a commonly used model of ...

What is a prokaryotic cell? Prokaryotes are small, single-celled organisms with a simple structure. Unlike other cells, they don’t have a nucleus or other membrane-bound organelles. Instead, most ...

Prokaryotes, on the other hand, have no membrane-bound organelles. Another important difference is the DNA structure and location. 4 Eukaryote DNA consists of multiple molecules of double-stranded ...

Perhaps prokaryotic organisms that didn’t start out with the ability to control their DNA that way would have struggled to make the leap. Crucially, whenever eukaryotes did manage to put together a ...

An innovative programmable tool for targeting nucleic acids has been created, utilizing a prokaryotic immune defense system—and it is not CRISPR-Cas. Russian Academy of Sciences researchers have ...

Prokaryotic single-celled organisms, the ancestors of modern-day bacteria and archaea, are the most ancient form of life on our planet, first appearing roughly 3.5 billion years ago. The first ...