The last few years have provided us with a new level of understanding of how chromosomes are replicated, segregated and read - and how their 3D organisation influences expression of individual genes ...

Background: Rhinovirus infection is responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality as the major cause of exacerbations of asthma, and is also known to induce exacerbations of cystic fibrosis and ...

A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray. Analyzing a wealth of DNA collected from fossilized human bones, the researchers found that the first Indo-European speakers ...

Ancient DNA locates the geographic origin of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Proto-Anatolians and describes their early migrations out of the Caucasus Lower Volga and North Pontic regions of present-day ...

Learning about your genetics and ancestry is easier than ever. All you need to do is choose from the many DNA ancestry tests available online, receive your kit and send back the required DNA samples.

Cases of Rhinovirus are on the rise, with young children being particularly affected. UK government data from its weekly virus update show that Rhinovirus positivity has gone up to 9.7% from 8.1% ...

First, in addition to alignment-based homology searches that rely on conserved functional motifs, emerging structural data on the different families of DNA polymerases will facilitate structure ...

This short manuscript uses mutation counts in phylogenies of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes to show that mutation rates systematically differ between regions that are paired or unpaired in the ...

In prokaryotic cells, DNA bundles together in a region called the nucleoid ... Table 1 below provides an overview of the key features of a prokaryotic cell: Table 1. The structure and function of key ...

Kari Stefansson CEO of deCODE genetics talks to Bjarni V. Halldorsson, scientist at deCODE genetics about the paper, complete recombination map of the human-genome. Credit: deCODE genetics The ...

Attempts to do so have relied on chemicals that damage the DNA structure or strategies that capture only short stretches of DNA, preventing a comprehensive picture. In a new study published in ...