Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

Kentucky prosecutor assists young woman with her legal problems in exchange for nudes, sex. Which leads to a three-plus-year federal prison sentence for him. But were his acts "official acts" as ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Researchers have unveiled a way to flip genes back on without slicing into the genome, a shift that could make CRISPR far ...

Now scientists from the field of so-called arteomics, or the study of biological traces on artworks and other cultural ...

This is a summary of: Liu. H. et al. Viral RNA blocks circularization to evade host codon usage control. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09809-y (2025).

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Restricted access to genome-editing technologies poses serious challenges for countries like India that urgently need such ...

Researchers are investigating the role of non-coding DNA, or junk DNA, in regulating astrocytes, brain cells involved in ...

The researchers used a genetic tool called CRISPRi that can mute DNA sections without permanently cutting them. The tool was ...

Researchers discover a unique genetic code in Antarctic archaea that encodes a rare amino acid, potentially advancing protein ...