Some people have incredibly long runs of homozygosity with no clear deleterious effect. Sohini Ramachandran You inherit half of your…
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Details of the cholera bacterium’s T6SS (type VI secretion system) have been worked out with sequencing methods – and showed…
Have you ever wondered whether the behavior of your dog is more dependent on genetics or more on its upbringing?…
Genetic modifications are often used to verify the mechanisms of drugs. To a surprise of scientists, 10 cancer drugs miss…
Not all mutations are equal – this sentence sounds obvious, but biological reality offers surprisingly complex mechanisms behind it. Two…
In plant genomes, histone H1 and DNA methylation cooperatively silence transposable elements, silence intragenic antisense transcripts, as well as maintain…
UBE3A encodes E3 ubiquitin ligase and regulates brain’s immune system, which is associated with Angelman syndrome. More: UBE3A regulates the…
Out of 295 yeast strains, each with deleted single intron, 64% do not survive stress conditions. Their function in stress…
Enhancer specific for cell type helps to form pre-initiation complex – in a manner of burst frequency, stimulates expression of…
LINE-1 becomes active shortly after fertilization, which was observed by expression measurements, as well as sequencing of embryos. More: LINE-1…