From the completion of the pilot phase of The ENCODE Project in 2007, it has been evident that there is much more to a gene than the just a sequence that codes for protein, changing our concept of ...

A 'loopy' discovery in bacteria is raising fundamental questions about the makeup of our own genome -- and revealing a potential wellspring of material for new genetic therapies. A "loopy" discovery ...

Harvard scientists successfully recorded five frames of Eadweard Muybridge's 1887 galloping horse on living bacteria, and retrieved the images in sequence. When harnessed, this system has the ...

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(Nanowerk News) As carriers of genetic information, nucleic acid molecules have emerged as promising candidates for gene-based therapeutic interventions. Nucleic acids, through the principle of ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple loop at the cell’s center. A giant microbe called Thiovulum imperiosus has now ...

DNA-based information is a new field hoping to fill the gap in long-term data storage by using DNA as an information storage medium. Despite DNA’s potential, researchers face problems accurately ...

DNA-encoded chemical libraries (DELs) have emerged as a transformative technology in drug discovery, offering unparalleled efficiency in the identification of bioactive small molecules. By covalently ...