Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions.

The traditional explanation of the initial genetic code in life seems less established when ancient proteins seem to be recalling some other arrangement of amino-acids. A recent examination of protein ...

Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions. Yet breeding improved ...

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Among them was David Liu, a biochemist at the Broad Institute and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Liu isn’t a ...

Researchers at the School of Biological Sciences of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have uncovered how eukaryotic cells can ...

DNA provides the foundational library of possibilities, but the environment serves as the librarian, choosing which books are ...

Researchers showed that in C. elegans, the protein MBD-2 regulates genes through repressive histone marks rather than DNA ...

DNA from 3,700-year-old bones in a mountain cave in Calabria reveals a family relationship so rare it stands out even in deep ...

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