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DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).

Cellular enlargement drives a decline in function of stem cells, study suggests

MIT biologists have answered an important biological question: Why do cells control their size? Cells of the same type are strikingly uniform in size, while cell size differs between different cell types. This raises the question of whether cell size is important for cellular physiology.

15 Nov 2021

CRISPR introduces potentially dangerous changes in cells, reveals research

New research revealed that gene editing, particularly gene knockout, with CRISPR-Cas9 can support cells with mutated gene forms associated with cancer.

15 Nov 2021

Cellular senescence is caused by irreversible damage to the genome

Researchers have demonstrated that the aging of cells is dependent on a genomic instability mechanism that causes the disease.

15 Nov 2021

New epigenetic editing technique could help treat a wide range of diseases

All the cells found in the body of an individual have the same genetic code.

15 Nov 2021

Mysterious protein clusters found on neurons are calcium-signaling “hotspots”, study reveals

For 30 years, mysterious clusters of proteins found on the cell body of neurons in the hippocampus, a part of the brain, both intrigued and baffled James Trimmer.

From The University of California, Davis 15 Nov 2021

Pacific Ocean rockfish genomes offer new insights into the genetic determinants of aging

Genomes assembled from Pacific Ocean rockfishes – some species of which are among the longest-living vertebrates known – reveal new insights into the genetic determinants of aging.

12 Nov 2021

CRISPR screening identifies metabolic enzyme as new target for anti-inflammatory therapeutics

A metabolic enzyme that has been studied in cancer biology and is important for T cell function may offer a new target for anti-inflammatory therapeutics, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered.

12 Nov 2021

Improving our Understanding of Bacterial Membranes

We speak to Professor Bart Hoogenboom and Georgina Benn about current research using technology to create the sharpest images of living bacteria ever recorded.

From University College London 12 Nov 2021

Using a new genetic technology to decipher intratumoral heterogeneity

Even within a single patient with cancer, there is a vast diversity of individual tumor cells, which display distinct behaviors related to growth, metastasis, and responses to chemotherapy.

12 Nov 2021

INTEGRA’s VOYAGER helps HIV researchers get more results in significantly less time

INTEGRA’s VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette is supporting crucial experimental work in longitudinal HIV studies.

From INTEGRA Biosciences 12 Nov 2021

Study offers genetic clues on the fundamental development of anatomical appearance

Which genes control the defining features that make us look as we do? And how do they make it happen?

11 Nov 2021

Research establishes a new understanding of how DNA methylation begins in plants

Crop improvement often involves the transfer of genetic material from one organism to another to produce a valuable trait. Some major examples of crops with these so-called "transgenes" include disease-resistant cotton and beta-carotene-enhanced golden rice.

10 Nov 2021

New program can help to correctly interpret the genetic code of newly sequenced organisms

Yekaterina "Kate" Shulgina was a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, looking for a short computational biology project so she could check the requirement off her program in systems biology. She wondered how genetic code, once thought to be universal, could evolve and change.

10 Nov 2021

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Cellular enlargement drives a decline in function of stem cells, study suggests

CRISPR introduces potentially dangerous changes in cells, reveals research

Cellular senescence is caused by irreversible damage to the genome

New epigenetic editing technique could help treat a wide range of diseases

Mysterious protein clusters found on neurons are calcium-signaling “hotspots”, study reveals

Pacific Ocean rockfish genomes offer new insights into the genetic determinants of aging

CRISPR screening identifies metabolic enzyme as new target for anti-inflammatory therapeutics

Improving our Understanding of Bacterial Membranes

Using a new genetic technology to decipher intratumoral heterogeneity

INTEGRA’s VOYAGER helps HIV researchers get more results in significantly less time

Study offers genetic clues on the fundamental development of anatomical appearance

Research establishes a new understanding of how DNA methylation begins in plants

New program can help to correctly interpret the genetic code of newly sequenced organisms

Whole genome sequencing for children with cancer provides accurate diagnosis

Researchers propose novel model for mitochondrial nucleoid self-assembly

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Researchers identify genes related with plant survival in the Atacama Desert in Chile

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