Emerging findings suggest that viral DNA may play an important part in how embryos form, right after fertilization.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. It's a win for alien life.

For decades, scientists dismissed transposable elements, also known as transposons or “jumping genes”, as useless “junk DNA”. But are they really? The early speculations of both McClintock ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the molecular "blueprint" carrying the genetic instructions that influence the growth, ...

Element Biosciences’ bid to claim a slice of a DNA sequencing technology market dominated by Illumina has been helped by an impressive $277 million financing round backed by a wide range of ...

Novel DNA elements were identified as genomic signposts that guide TFs to the correct genetic switches necessary for activating cell-type-specific genes. The study introduces new "guided search ...

when the RNA pol binds to the DNA upstream (5′) of the gene at a specialized sequence called a promoter (Figure 2a). In bacteria, promoters are usually composed of three sequence elements ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the "dark side" of ...

There are a few parts of the myoglobin DNA code that vary within each species ... Myoglobin isn't the main element of a meat's flavor The flavor of a meat mainly comes from the aromas of the ...