Bacterial defense system builds DNA in unexpected new way to stop viruses

Scientists at Stanford University have discovered that DRT3, a unique defense system found in bacteria, creates DNA to ...

Scientists Just Discovered How an Infamous Organism Is Creating Brand New DNA

In a new study, scientists analyzed one such strategy used by the bacterium Escherichia coli. One of the enzymes in the ...

Cheaper sequencing, bigger payoff: New software could bring advanced metagenomics to more labs

Metagenomics relies on the use of software programs called assemblers, which can reconstruct tens of thousands of individual ...

DNA Can Be Built in a Way We've Never Seen Before, Study Finds

Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...
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DNA holds cryptic “junk” sequences baffling scientists

For decades, scientists have been puzzled by large portions of the human genome labeled as “junk” DNA, sequences that seemingly serve no purpose. Yet, recent studies suggest these cryptic sequences ...

Genome Sequencing Solves Rare Disease Mysteries

Clinical genome sequencing now delivers genetic diagnoses for about 1 in 4 suspected rare disease patients, guiding targeted ...
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Cellectis Presents Epigenetic Editing Platform to Turn Genes Off Without Altering DNA at the ASGCT Annual Meeting

Cellectis (the 'Company”) (Euronext Growth: ALCLS - NASDAQ: CLLS), a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its ...
The Scientist

Massively Parallel Sequencing Technology Allows Forensic Biologists to Tackle Cold Cases

Advances in DNA sequencing technology help forensic biologists identify suspects where traditional DNA profiling has failed, ...
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DeepMind’s New AI Can Read a Million DNA Letters at Once—and Actually Understand Them

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...