Powerful tool can map gene regulation at single-nucleotide resolution

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

Hitchhiking DNA picked up by a gene may save a species from extinction

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...
Smithsonian Magazine

What Causes Stuttering? A Large DNA Analysis Study Offers New Clues, Uncovering Links to 48 Genes

Scientists analyzed data from more than one million users of 23andMe and found associations between certain genes and stuttering ...
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Scientists watch humans' most active 'parasite gene' cutting DNA

They observe how the mobile DNA LINE-1 copies its sequence in human cells, revealing the precise mechanism of the ORF2p gene.