Accurate RNA splicing is essential for gene expression and human health, yet predicting how DNA sequence variations affect ...

Research called Multiple Annealing and Looping-Based Amplification Cycles (MALBAC) comes out of Harvard, and it is making single-cell sequencing a reality. While other single-cell sequencing has been ...

A team led by Chinese paleogeneticist Qiaomei Fu identified goat and cattle DNA in samples of the cheese. The researchers were was also able to sequence DNA of microbes contained in the cheese, ...

Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated with illnesses such as sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis. The most ...

In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in ...

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...