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Scientists Sequence 2,000 Ocean Microbes in a Drop of Seawater

Scientists from Bigelow Laboratory and Atrandi Biosciences developed a method called environmental microcompartment genomics ...

Two main gene discovery methods reveal complementary aspects of biology

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...
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RNA Molecules Alter Genome Structure to Silence Critical Neuronal Genes During Stress

What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...

First DNA evidence of Black Death in Edinburgh discovered on teeth of excavated teenage skeleton

Experts said the discovery was “ground breaking” with new testing transforming understandings of the city’s medieval ...
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Study finds high intake of ultra-processed foods tied to reduced DNA methylation

Women who consumed more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) showed distinct DNA methylation patterns, mostly reduced across key gene ...

KATMAP: A new way to understand and predict gene splicing

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, Who Discovered Molecular ‘Scissors’ to Cut DNA, Dies at 94

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...