Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) has transformed the way scientists understand genetics. With the ability to sequence DNA ...

Epigenetic variation, like genetic variation, can be inherited and influence traits across generations. However, epigenetic ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic “marks” in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells may ...

IT has become widely accepted that within a cell genetic information is coded in the sequence of bases in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), that DNA can direct the synthesis both of itself and of ...

Two independent research teams have finally figured out what makes cats orange. It turns out a special gene is responsible ...

A new type of cat coat color has officially been discovered. Named salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice,’ the cats have hair strands ...

Genetic sequencing companies are the engines ... Sequencing companies have developed different approaches and innovations to read the sequence of base pairs in the genome. Some approaches, such ...

A team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific ...

With Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT), molecular genetics enables the correlation between changes in the structure and ...

Research by German scientists into the genetic makeup of European potato varieties has revealed that, despite significant ...

Discover how an emerging technology called tRNA therapy could become the next big thing in genetic disease treatment.