Programmable Chromosome Engineering systems enable precise DNA manipulations
A team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology…
Bacteria built with smallest genetic code ever
Almost all organisms follow a basic rule to make proteins. Information in DNA is encoded by codons…
Salk Institute’s ShortStop revolutionizes genetic search
Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But…
New software predicts cancer cell behavior to advance treatment
In the same vein as weather forecast models that predict developing storms, researchers now have developed a method…
Australian scientists uncover new way to halt aggressive cancer growth
Australian researchers have discovered a promising new strategy to suppress the growth of aggressive and hard-to-treat cancers by…
AI identifies novel gene variants linked to Alzheimer’s risk
New AI-driven research reveals how advanced machine learning models not only confirm known Alzheimer’s genes but also spot…
new blind spots in the genome revealed
BarcelonaThere are still elements to map on our genes. More than twenty years ago, the scientific community managed…
Ozzy Osbourne’s Genes Really Were Wired for Alcohol and Addiction
Ozzy Osbourne shouldn’t have survived. He said it. The scientists said it. Anyone who watched him howl into…
Healthy Life: Ancient viruses in our DNA may hold clues to what makes us human | Healthy Life
Fragments of ancient viral DNA once dismissed as “junk” may play a role in controlling our genes, according…
New study identifies genes that shape human brain features
What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human…
The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA Tim H. H. Coorens, Boxun Zhao, Adam Voshall, Kristin G. Ardlie, Bradley E.…
Ancient viral DNA found to regulate human gene expression
A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as…