In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...
Researchers have identified the specific structural loops in G-quadruplex DNA that allow it to act as a chaperone, preventing ...
Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...
For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...
Chemist Anne Lüscher showed at 39C3 how synthetic DNA can be used for data storage and tamper-proof authentication.
As of Wednesday, December 31, Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.’s PACB share price has surged by 5.49%, which has ...
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Hidden DNA weak spot near gene start mutates rapidly

These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human genome, together with protein-coding sequences,” said Donate Weghorn, a ...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, led by Bindu Paul, an associate professor of pharmacology, psychiatry and neuroscience ...
Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.
Study uncovers key insights about how a new class of antiviral drugs works. Cryo-EM images showed the drugs bound to herpes simplex virus (HSV) protein at nearly atomic detail, while optical tweezers ...