The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

Symptoms of Huntington's disease appear late in life. Research reveals how DNA repeats grow toxic over time, explaining the ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

which can be used to convert one nucleotide base into another without cutting both strands of DNA, unlike other technologies like CRISPR/Cas9. BEAM-101 modifies haematopoietic stem cells to ...

Structural variants often coincide with low-copy repeat DNA (also called segmental duplications ... Considering the total nucleotide content that is contained within these structural variants ...

Riboswitches are RNA sensors that allow bacteria to sense and respond to their environment. Here, Bushhouse et al. demonstrate that the sensitivity of several riboswitches can be tuned by ...

NASA researchers have discovered organic compounds and minerals essential for life in samples collected from the near-Earth ...

In a recent study published in the journal Intelligent Computing, researchers from Peking University showed how nuclear electric resonance can be used to manipulate DNA artificially for computational ...

How cells respond to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage is not fully understood. This study uncovers a mechanism of mtDNA ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...