Researchers trace genetic code's origins to early protein structures

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

Bridge recombinases, optimized for human cells, enable massive programmable DNA rearrangements

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...
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Your DNA's Codes Are (Probably) From Outer Space

Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA? Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA? And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space? No joke. The biochemistry ...
Nanowerk

Pyrimidine: Essential Building Block of DNA and RNA

This diagram depicts the chemical structure of pyrimidine, a six-membered aromatic ring with two nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3 (highlighted in blue). The remaining positions are occupied by ...

UCSD researchers find new system for gene editing that may be safer than CRISPR

That’s why a team from UC San Diego in La Jolla set out with Yale University researchers to develop a new system for gene ...

Small nuclear RNA base editing offers a safer alternative to CRISPR, researchers find

Genetic editing holds promise to treat incurable diseases, but the most popular method—CRISPR—sometimes does more harm than ...
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Innovative RNA editing offers hope beyond CRISPR

Genetic editing holds promise to treat incurable diseases, but the most popular method - CRISPR - sometimes does more harm ...