Programmable interactions between DNA, RNA,and proteins are the main building blocks for sophisticated biological circuits that drive living systems, allowing the design of artificial biomolecular ...

As DNA sequencing technologies improve, it is becoming easier to sequence and assemble new genomes from non-model organisms. However, before a newly assembled genome sequence can be used as a ...

Researchers at Stanford Medicine discovered that bacteria can perform DNA inversions within single genes, altering their genetic coding. This finding challenges traditional genetic understanding and ...

A new review by Erich Bornberg-Bauer and Lars A. Eicholt summarizes current understanding of protein-coding de novo genes—genes that originate from previously non-coding DNA. Once considered rare or ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

A University of Iowa-led study has revealed the unexpected structure adopted by the DNA repair protein RAD52 as it binds and protects replicating DNA in dividing cells. This new structural and ...