Researchers design the first rewritable biological data storage system.
Researchers design the first rewritable biological data storage system.
Ancient bacteria living in deep-sea sediments are alive—but with metabolisms so slow that it’s hard to tell.
Researchers identify the first circadian clock component conserved across all three domains of life.
Nanoparticles in mice can be switched on to activate insulin production using a radio signal.
Human-specific duplications of a gene involved in brain development may have contributed to our species’ unique intelligence.
Researchers identify two new DNA repair systems, in addition to four that were already known, that can attack unprotected telomeres.
Human embryonic stem cells swiftly kill themselves in response to DNA damage.
Anxious mice are more likely to come down with aggressive skin cancer than those who show less stress on behavioral tests.
Telomeres are repetitive, noncoding sequences that cap the ends of linear chromosomes. They consist of hexameric nucleotide sequences (TTAGGG in humans) repeated hundreds to thousands of times. Telomeres protect the protein-coding sequences of DNA on
Genes that react to cellular sugar content are regulated by a long non-coding RNA via an unexpected mechanism