Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
Overturning previous studies, a peculiar protozoan mysteriously uses a DNA-markup system to take out the genetic trash.
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An HIV drug can bind to and alter the function of an immune molecule, causing a dangerous reaction in patients with a particular allele.
A unique organism sighted only once, more than a century ago, could shed light on the evolution of multicellularity—if it ever actually existed.
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
Long non-protein-coding RNA (lncRNA) sequences are often transcribed from the opposite, or antisense, strand of a protein coding gene. In the past few years, research has shown that these lncRNAs play a number of regulatory roles in the cell. For exa
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