“This is really an exciting paper . . . a true engineering feat. It elegantly increases the number of DNA and RNA building blocks and dramatically expands the information density of nucleic acids,” ...

Consider, for example, the technique called DNA bar coding, which is based on using short fragments of mitochondrial gene CO1 to uniquely identify and document animal species (Savolainen ...

Through combinatorial color coding and iterative hybridization and imaging cycles, researchers can identify thousands of RNA species with this strategy. In single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), ...

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 that defined the coding system of your D ...

It can also make sense of existing DNA, including hard-to-interpret ‘non-coding’ gene variants that are linked to disease. ‘ChatGPT for CRISPR’ creates new gene-editing tools Evo 2 ...

The researchers studied resistance variants found in the non-coding genome, which makes up 98% of DNA and does not contain genes. Previous attempts to identify resistance mechanisms to ...

"Geneticists are only now starting to uncover the importance of junk DNA and reveal that it can directly influence the coding regions of the genome through silencing and enhancing actions ...

Swiss start-up Haya Therapeutics has formed a partnership with Eli Lilly – worth up to $1 billion – to look for new therapies for obesity in non-coding DNA. The biotech focuses on trawling the ...