The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 ...

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Indian scientists at ZSI have pioneered a groundbreaking method using DNA metabarcoding to decode spider-parasitoid ...

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The mitochondrial genome can help researchers map ancestry and better understand the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases.

A new study reveals that distal gene regulation via DNA looping evolved 150 million years earlier than previously believed.

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Unfortunately, Vibrio natriegens doesn't have the sophisticated molecular tools that are available in a species like E. coli.