Chromatin as a guide Every day, our cells divide. Each time they need to copy both their DNA and the structure in which the DNA is packed. This packaging, called chromatin, acts as a guide. It tells ...

Akey’s team found even those reference groups had trace amounts of Neanderthal DNA, likely brought by travelers. With IBDmix, ...

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

The enzymes evolved differently, allowing plants to manage DNA stability and support diverse growing conditions ... This ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

Adapted from a news release by the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley.The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to ...

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants multiple ways to override instructions that are coded into their DNA.

Biologists have investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their findings could help engineer crops that are more resilient to environmental changes, like heat or drought stress.

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants ...

There is also evidence that individual nucleotides can spontaneously assemble into chains to make RNA. This is a crucial step ...