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For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.
Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark ...
Junk DNA” may hold the key to treating tough cancers. Existing drugs exploit weaknesses in cells with gene mutations. Researchers at King’s College London have identified a promising strategy for ...
When evidence is collected at a Hennepin County crime scene, it ends up in a laboratory in downtown Minneapolis, where in just a few minutes, analysts can identify blood on a t-shirt.
When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...
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DNA sequence once overlooked as ‘junk’ found to drive human chromosome fusions
Leonardo Gomes de Lima, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the Gerton Lab, led the research. The findings show how these chromosome fusions form, why they remain stable, and how repetitive DNA, once ...
When a sperm meets an egg, a lot has to go right for an embryo to develop into a complete organism. One critical step of ...
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