Scientists say their work on a critical step in DNA replication will provide new insights into a fundamental process of life and driver of many different diseases, including cancer. They report ...

The Zoonomia Project compared the genomes of 240 mammalian species to find DNA regions that remained mostly unchanged over 100 million years.

Long-term, heritable changes in gene activity fundamentally shape our biology, trigger many of our diseases, and set the clock on how we age. Now, a team of U of U Health scientists is starting an ...

The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking that took more than a decade and billions of dollars to complete. For it, scientists collected DNA samples from anonymous volunteers who were ...

Creating such a complex biological module is an important step towards an even more ambitious goal: building a complete and functioning synthetic cell from the bottom up.

In bacteria, to start DNA replication, two replisomes attach to the DNA at a set origin point and head in opposite directions along the loop of DNA, copying DNA until they meet on the other side.

Scientists were able to watch the replication using proteins found inside jellyfish. Researchers engineered bacteria cells with the fluorescent proteins attached to important molecular machinery.

DNA Day is held on April 25 to commemorate the publishing of the scientific papers that described the helical structure of the DNA molecule ...

This project will support an NIH funded Science Education Partnership Award entitled "The Metagenomics Education Partnership: Harnessing the Power of Microbial Genome Sequencing and Big Data with High ...

New model for replication of BKPyV virus, a major cause of kidney transplant failure Date: December 6, 2024 Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham Summary: BK polyomavirus, or BKPyV, is a ...