For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

University at Albany researchers at the RNA Institute are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA ...

In the process, DNA is transcribed into RNA and then translated into functional proteins that subsequently undergo folding to ...

Assembling DNA nanostructures at more moderate temperatures opens up the possibility of using the structures in biomedical ...

Researchers have identified an ancient RNA-guided system that can target DNA, potentially expanding the genome-editing toolbox.

The result is an innovative new technique that uses a novel DNA barcode system to track hundreds of RNA and protein molecules in single cells within thick biological samples, providing researchers ...

Genes have to be expressed in the right place, at the time, and at the right levels. Scientists wanted to know more about how ...

Nobel Laureate and University of Chicago professor Jack Szostak delivered two lectures on the origin of life to an audience of professors, graduate, and undergraduate students the Monday and Tuesday ...

The following is a summary of “Diagnostic-avoiding Chlamydia trachomatis variants detected in cervical and endometrial ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing, we mapped thousands of expression quantitative trait loci in yeast, including a variant in GPA1 that influences gene expression, cell-cycle occupancy, and mating ...