Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

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From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could explain how the condition is inherited ...

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Transporter 14 carried 70 different payloads, including a special memorial capsule containing cremated remains and DNA ...

The face-to-face and face-to-back stacked uracil dimers have been investigated by second-order Møller−Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory and by the coupled-cluster singles and doubles method augmented ...

In contrast, the internal loop of L30 RNA forms a compact purine stack with distinct structure features in the complex (Fig. 6 a) involving extensive base stacking and non-Watson–Crick base pairing.

Triple helices of DNA are finding increasing level of applications in several areas, including antigene therapy and gene regulation. We have probed site-specific dynamic aspects of TAT triple helices ...

Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pave the way for solid-state, label-free DNA sequencing technologies with implications for precision medicine.