2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (483+ words) Tiny Ions Help DNA Overcome Repulsion Professor Agnes Noy, from the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology at the University of York, co-led the research. She said: "This discovery could help researchers identify regions of the genome specially involved in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (450+ words) All known life on Earth relies on the same four-letter genetic alphabet. Researchers at the University of California San Diego have now shown that one of biology's most important enzymes can accurately read and transcribe a much larger version containing…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (516+ words) MIT researchers have created bacterial “transistors” that can be wired together into living circuits capable of performing calculations and directing chemical signals. One day, these biological computers could coat plant roots or leaves, detecting environmental threats and automatically triggering defenses....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (274+ words) A popular vanilla flavoring in e-cigarettes may interfere with some of the earliest steps of human development. In lab experiments, vanillin caused embryonic stem cells to lose their ability to develop normally and pushed them toward forming only certain types…...

3+ week, 43+ min ago   (376+ words) Healthy growth and development depend on tens of thousands of genes being switched on at the right time and in the right place. Specific regions of DNA help coordinate this process, guiding the production of enzymes, hormones, proteins, and other…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (689+ words) DNA serves as the genetic blueprint for every living organism, but it is also an extraordinarily dense way to store information. A single gram can hold about 215 million gigabytes of data. Bringing that remarkable storage capacity into electronics could lead…...