Bacteria use a newly discovered system called Kongming to turn viral enzymes into a self-destruct signal, with big biotech ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

Among the major classes of RNAs in the cell, tRNAs remain the most difficult to characterize via deep sequencing approaches, as tRNA structure and nucleotide modifications can each interfere with cDNA ...

Ten years after learning their polygenic risk score, patients had fewer events—perhaps due to greater use of statin therapy.

Atea Pharmaceuticals (AVIR) announced that the full results from the Phase 2 clinical study of Atea’s regimen of bemnifosbuvir, a nucleotide ...

Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist.

PCR genetic analysis has been in the spotlight since COVID-19, but light is now further facilitating PCR-free methods. Osaka ...

Epigenetic "clocks" measure biological age, which predicts earlier or later onset of the leading causes of death. Childhood ...

Before cells divide, they replicate the double-stranded DNA of each chromosome. The replication machinery does a good job of copying the nucleotide sequences until it gets to the telomeres, the end ...

An Israeli study has identified TRIM63 as a significant genetic contributor to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)—the most common hereditary heart disease worldwide. The findings, published in ...

Axiomer ™ “Editing Oligonucleotides”, or EONs, mediate single nucleotide changes to RNA in a highly specific and targeted way using molecular machinery that is present in human cells called ADAR ...

Nucleotide databases like NCBI nt have a broad range of applications, from diagnosing infection and tracking disease to monitoring environmental health, studying microbiomes and developing ...