Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have addressed a longstanding challenge in CRISPR ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

On Friday, April 25, creative agency VML and biotech companies Lab-Grown Leather Ltd. and The Organoid Company announced a “first-of-its-kind” partnership. Their goal: to create a cruelty-free, ...

A study introduces a CRISPR model that predicts gRNA activity more accurately using chemically synthesized gRNAs. The model ...

Somatic hypermutation (SHM) of immunoglobulin variable (V) regions modulates antibody-antigen affinity is initiated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA).

In Biology 101, we learn that RNA is a single, ribbon-like strand of base pairs that is copied from our DNA and then read like a recipe to build a protein. But there's more to the story. Some RNA ...

Currently, only about 30% of rare disease patients receive an accurate diagnosis from exome sequencing. For many patients, ...

The child will need to be monitored throughout his life, but researchers said the treatment’s success indicates that other ...