Because this truncated replication occurs over and over again, nucleic acids of varying lengths accumulate and can be used to determine the position of each nucleotide in the sequence. In order to ...

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Nucleotide Sequence of a Nucleic Acid ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 214 No. 2 (February 1966), p. 30 doi:10.1038 ...

Genetic changes have the ability to alter crop characteristics, and some crop breeding techniques take advantage of this. Conventionally, genetic engineering has relied on natural or artificial ...

Mutations can be grouped into two main categories based on where they occur: somatic mutations and germ-line mutations. Somatic mutations take place in non-reproductive cells. Many kinds of ...

Biology has yet to tap into the full benefits of computer simulations, but a new AI foundation model developed by a team of scientists including CMU's Eric Xing hopes to change that.

The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) has developed GenEditScan, a simple k-mer analysis tool and is available for free on GitHub website. k-mer analysis is used for detecting ...