An international team, including researchers from HSE University, has created the first comprehensive map of quadruplexes—unstable DNA structures ...
Anyone who has grown up eating freshwater fish knows the drill. You eat slowly. You chew twice. You stop mid-bite because ...
A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...
A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.
Thymagen (also called thymogen; dipeptide Glu-Trp, EW) is a synthetic peptide analog derived from thymic extracts and regarded in peptide bioregulator research for its putative immunoregulatory and ...
The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our fingers or toes. Kids love it, ...
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Hidden DNA weak spot near gene start mutates rapidly

These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human genome, together with protein-coding sequences,” said Donate Weghorn, a ...
Researchers created the most detailed maps yet of the genome’s three-dimensional organization using human stem cells and ...
New 3D genome maps reveal how DNA folding controls gene activity, offering fresh clues into disease and cell function.
Against this backdrop, a research team led by Dr. Guozhang Kang and Dr. Gezi Li from Henan Agricultural University, China, ...