A team was able to edit the DNA of Lactobacillus strains directly without a template from other organisms. This technique is indistinguishable from natural variation and enabled the researchers to ...

The human genome is like a big ball of yarn, made up of 3 billion molecular units arranged in sequence and then wrapped up ...

Talus Bioscience, a technology-enabled therapeutics company, today announced new preclinical data from programs targeting transcription factors in chordoma, non-small cell lung cancer, and advanced ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

Cutting-edge DNA mapping technology has identified new genetic information that can help researchers decipher more genetic ...

New research predicts the location of DNA sequences that can form structures besides the canonical double helix — non-B DNA — in the recently released telomere-to-telomere genomes of the great apes, ...

Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations—referred ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we ...

An international research team has provided a detailed insight into how the spatial organization of genetic material is established in the cell nucleus of early embryos within the first hours after ...