New research published in Nature Communications into hidden mutations in mitochondrial DNA has uncovered how high mutational ...

One dataset used in the study looked at tree species abundance in the United States. Virginia’s forests, among the nation’s ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Scientists have identified sequences in great apes' DNA capable of forming unconventional structures called non-B DNA. These ...

Using fast-evolving DNA-based techniques requires awareness, community buy-in, and, most importantly, trust and respect to ...

These new results from southernmost Africa are quite different and suggest a long history of relative genetic stability,” ...

We introduce MADna, a sequence-dependent coarse-grained model of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), where each nucleotide is described by three beads localized at the sugar, at the base moiety, and at the ...

Children born before 37 weeks of gestation have a considerably increased risk of dying before they reach the age of five.

Hydrolysis of the phosphodiester linkages in DNA is a notoriously difficult reaction. Deoxyribozymes that use Zn 2+ and Mn 2+ ions to accelerate this reaction by a factor of one hundred million ...

However, results must be interpreted with great caution, since differences in satellite DNA may be quantitative (variation in copy number) or qualitative (variation in nucleotide sequence). Identical ...

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps the species survive. Some pieces of DNA are more like parasites, along for ...