Category: Genetics

What steps can researchers take to combat crop viruses? This is what a recent study published in Nucleic Acids Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated a novel method using…

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is known to cause DNA damage, and while that damage may accumulate and eventually lead to diseases like skin cancer, cells also have repair mechanisms that can fix UV-induced DNA…

As our bodies grow, cells proliferate to form tissues, and cells frequently have to be repaired or replaced throughout life. But the genome can also become less stable over time, or may pick up mutations that…

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single lineage. However, according to new research from…

Assay developers in biopharma and research labs strive to save time,…

Technological advancements in computation and genetics have enabled researchers to sequence the genomes of vast numbers of organisms. With metagenomics techniques, researchers are able to sequence all of the…

Parkinson’s Disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that causes movement problems in the early stages and progresses over time to affect other things like cognition. The disease has an early onset form,…

Scientists and clinicians have long sought biomarkers that can accurately measure a person’s biological age, and the mechanisms that drive aging. In aging, the function of the body breaks down over time. This…

From being a promising yet underexplored approach in the 1990s, mRNA…

Genes have to be expressed in the right place, at the time, and at the right levels to carry out the right functions. To learn more about these physiological processes and how they change in disease,…