One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA that were ...

A portion of our genome that was once dismissed as being “junk” may actually play an important role in regulating gene expression, new research suggests. According to the work of an international team ...

A global team mapped over 100,000 structural variants in human genomes by applying Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing and a ...

A research team led by Dr. Xiaoqin Liu at the Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences has discovered and characterized a native ...

The existence of distinct initiation patterns for the same DNA sequence after MED25 versus GFZP recruitment is illustrated by the promoter of the Mcm3 gene and an intronic sequence within the ...

AAP FactCheck emailed Professor Dalgleish to ask for his evidence, but did not receive a response. SV40 is an abbreviation ...

Despite sharing DNA sequences, monozygotic twins are epigenetically distinct and express different genes, offering a model to ...

Objective Deep venous thrombosis (DVT), a potentially life-threatening condition with a high clinical incidence, represents a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to a new gene therapy for Amyotrophic Lateral ...

Most promoter sequences are generated by arbitrary truncating regions upstream from the transcription start site, typically around 1,000 base pairs. However, this arbitrary approach might miss ...