Eighteen piglets born recently are the result of two years of intense research by scientists in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland and rep...
Many researchers, including Van Trung Chu, Klaus Rajewsky and Ralf Kühn, are seeking to promote the HDR repair pathway to make gene modification in the laboratory more precise in ord...
A pair of genetics researchers at Iowa State University found striking patterns in the building blocks of DNA in a wide variety of species, according to their recently published pape...
OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. On March 27, assembly, launch and test operations officially began at Lockheed Martin in Denver. NAS...
Then, about 350 million years ago, another doubling of the genome occurred in the ancestor of ray-finned fishes. In his thesis, David Lagman shows that many of the genes that give ri...
That energy, rather than going out as visible light, which is easy to see, goes out as gravitational waves, which are much more difficult to detect. Using gravitational waves as an o...
Credit: NASA NASA says the Opportunity rover has passed the marathon mark for driving on Mars. The space agency said Tuesday the rover’s odometer checked in at 26.2 miles—the distan...
(B) High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) mosaic of the mapped area. Topographic contours (in white, 500 m spacing) are indicated. Credit: Pondrelli et al. and GSA Bulletin Monica Po...
The orbital phase of the MESSENGER mission, which was originally designed to collect data for one Earth year, just completed its fourth year of operation around Mercury. The mission ...
DNA repair consists of enzymes which find the damaged DNA and repair it before the replication. Some of them recognize the damaged bases and give signals to the other enzymes, which ...
The complete array of HAWC detector tanks is seen here in December 2014. Credit: HAWC Collaboration Supernovae, neutron star collisions and active galactic nuclei are among the most...
Using a delayed-feedback mathematical model that analyzes historic data to help project future trends, the researchers identified a regularly recurring pattern of global water use in...
With the success of Morgan’s flyroom, the humble fruit fly was set on its way to becoming one of the leading models in modern biology, contributing vast amounts of knowledge to many ...
Matter particles are fermions while force particles are bosons. Matter particles: quarks and leptons Matter particles are split into two groups: quarks and leptons – there are six o...
Along with our colleagues, we have been using genome sequencing technology to analyse the vast array of ancient skeletons recovered from across Europe, ranging from the original hunt...
A powerful new genetic engineering technique allows scientists to precisely cut out and replace DNA in genes. Changes can be made in the DNA around the cleavage site which alter the ...
Credit: George Hodan/public domain By comparing the genes of current-day North and South Americans with African and European populations, an Oxford University study has found the ge...
Researchers at the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore have discovered that the inherent ‘handedness’ of molecular structures directs the behaviour...
Russia’s Gennady Padalka is beginning a six-month stay. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) NASA has never flown anyone longer than seven consecutive months. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) Seen...
Today’s best atomic clocks are based on the natural oscillations within a cloud of trapped atoms. A laser beam within the clock, directed through the cloud of atoms, can detect the a...
How this protein complex influences the actin network of the cell was a major discovery, Szymanski said. If we can learn more about the interactions between the actin and microtubule...
However, the idea that HGT occurs in more complex animals, such as humans, rather than them solely gaining genes directly from ancestors, has been widely debated and contested. The r...
It is up to a group of proteins known as chromosomal proteins to unlock the information required to trigger a function in a given cell—to form a bone, determine eye color, metabolize...
Ribosomes translate the information contained within the mRNA and produce the instructed protein. Many codons mean the same thing, but they influence decoding rate differently. Becau...
Analysis of the streams of particles penetrating the plasma has led to new findings about the properties of the plasma, and was recently published in the prestigious journal Physical...