Scientists Just Found DNA’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu – Could This Explain Life’s Origins?
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
Human genetics provides clues to why DNA regulatory regions get 'loopy'
DNA transcription is the vital first step needed for switching on our genes. For a gene to be switched on, it must be acted ...
DNA building blocks found in asteroids for first time
The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...
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Generative AI Model, ChromoGen, Rapidly Predicts Single-Cell Chromatin Conformations
New AI model takes minutes rather than days to predict how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.
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New Base Editing Gene Therapy Cures its First Patient: A Sickle-Cell Sufferer Now in the ‘Gym Every Day’
Base editing utilizes enzymes to modify single amino acids at the most foundational unit of DNA, called a base.
Asteroid Bennu samples found to contain five nitrogenous bases crucial to supporting life
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...
NASA's Bennu samples contain life's building blocks, including amino acids and DNA/RNA nucleobases
Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...
Neutral On Metagenomi's Promising Yet Highly Speculative Gene Editing Potential
Financial writer discusses MGX's gene editing technology, cash runway, and lack of clinical data for potential future ...
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Non-hexameric DNA helicases and translocases: mechanisms and regulation
During ssDNA translocation of PcrA and UvrD monomers, the hydrolysis of one molecule of ATP is coupled to movement by one base along the DNA. However, in many cases, larger translocation steps of ...
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Seven genome sequencing companies to look out for
Discover the top genomics startups revolutionizing genome sequencing technologies to enhance disease prevention and treatment ...
Oklahoma agencies pitching budget ideas on how to improve public safety
And a little after OSBI pitched their budget, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs Control pitched their ideal ...
Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...