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Using DNA Templates to Harness the Sun’s Energy

April 25, 2019
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Tempe, Arizona — As the world struggles to meet the increasing demand for energy, coupled with the rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere from deforestation and the use of fossil fuels, photosynthesis...

Tiny Light-Up Barcodes Identify Molecules by Twinkling

April 15, 2019
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Durham, NC — An imaging technique developed at Duke University could make it possible to peer inside cells and watch dozens of different molecules in action at once — by labelling them with short...

Gene Behind Long-Recognized Mitochondrial Disease has Highly Varied Effects

March 12, 2019
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Philadelphia, PA — For more than two decades, mutations in a gene located in the DNA of mitochondria have been classified as a mitochondrial disease and linked to a particular set of symptoms. However,...

Tiny DNA Reader to Advance Development of Anticancer Drugs

March 7, 2019
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Osaka, Japan — DNA is small. Really, really, small. So, when researchers want to study the structure of a single-stranded DNA, they can’t just pull out their microscopes: they have to get creative. In...

New Method to Boost CRISPR Efficiency Developed

March 6, 2019
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Dallas, TX — Scientists have developed a method to boost the efficiency of CRISPR gene editing in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), according to a study that could have implications for optimizing...

Protocells Use DNA Logic to Communicate and Compute

March 5, 2019
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Bristol, UK — The work provides a step towards chemical cognition in synthetic protocells and could be useful in biosensing and therapeutics. Molecular computers made from DNA use programmable interactions...

Using Histones as Bait: How Do Cells Decide How to Repair Their DNA?

February 28, 2019
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Bavaria, Germany —When DNA in the cell nucleus gets damaged, our cells can resort to a variety of repair mechanisms. A recent study published in ‘Nature Cell Biology‘, to which scientists...

Scientists Reveal How 3D Arrangement of DNA Helps Perpetuate Species

February 18, 2019
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Cincinnati, OH — From fathers to children, the delivery of hereditary information requires the careful packing of DNA in sperm. But just how nature packages this DNA to prepare offspring isn’t...

Cryo-Force Spectroscopy Reveals the Mechanical Properties of DNA Components

February 8, 2019
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Basel, Switzerland — Physicists from the University of Basel have developed a new method to examine the elasticity and binding properties of DNA molecules on a surface at extremely low temperatures....

Heavy Drinking May Change DNA — Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol

January 29, 2019
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New Brunswick, NJ — Binge and heavy drinking may trigger a long-lasting genetic change, resulting in an even greater craving for alcohol, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Alcoholism:...

The Helix, of DNA Fame, May Have Arisen with Startling Ease

January 25, 2019
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Atlanta, GA — Trying to explain how DNA and RNA evolved to form such neat spirals has been a notorious enigma in science. But a new study suggests the rotation may have occurred with ease billions...

Molecules of GM Food Can Accumulate in Human Digestive Tract and Enter Cells of Body

January 17, 2019
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Primorskiy kray, Russia — An international group of toxicologists, which includes scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), continues to study the potential risks of genetically modified...

Study Suggests DNA May Predict Potential Lifespan

January 16, 2019
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Scotland, UK — Scientists say they can predict whether a person can expect to live longer or die sooner than average, by looking at their DNA. The team has analyzed the combined effect of genetic...

DNA on Auto-Pilot

January 10, 2019
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Tempe, AZ — Nature has made extravagant use of a simple molecule–DNA, the floorplan of all earthly life. Inventive researchers have used the same base-pairing properties that bond two strands...

Chromosomes are Formed by Stacked Layers, Confirmed Scientists

January 8, 2019
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Barcelona, Spain — A new study based on electron microscopy techniques at low temperatures demonstrates that, during mitosis, chromosome DNA is packed in stacked layers of chromatin. The research,...

Red Wolf DNA Found in Mysterious Texas Canines

December 19, 2018
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Princeton, NJ — Though red wolves were declared extinct in the wild by 1980, a team of biologists has found their DNA in a group of canines living on Galveston Island off the coast of Texas. “This...

How Much are We Learning? Natural Selection is Science’s Best Critic

December 18, 2018
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY —- In 2003, the Human Genome Project revealed to the world the three billion chemical units within human DNA. Since that time, scientists have designed many ways to organize...

New, Rapid and Robust Method for Single Cell Profiling

December 17, 2018
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Odense, Denmark — Many of the cell types in our bodies work in obscure ways, that science does not yet fully understand. That also goes for immune cells, which are vital for protecting us against serious...

Promising Approach for Low-Cell-Number Epigenomic Profiling

December 11, 2018
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Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan — Scientists at Kyushu University and Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan have developed a technique that enables analysis of DNA-protein interactions using very small...

Without Dna2, Genes can Jump into DNA Breaks

December 6, 2018
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Houston, TX — Cells have in place a number of mechanisms to protect the integrity of the genome, including processes that repair mistakes that may occur during DNA replication. The enzyme Dna2 participates...

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