Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

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At the microscopic edge of biology, researchers have uncovered an organism so stripped down that it forces a rethink of what it means to be alive. The discovery hints at a form of existence that is ...

A California outfit has used artificial intelligence to design viral genomes before they were then built and tested in a laboratory. Following this, bacteria was then successfully infected with a ...

Abstract: The repeat content and heterozygosity rate of a target genome are important factors in determining the feasibility of achieving a complete telomere-to-telomere assembly. The mathematical ...

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This manuscript focuses on the identification of RNA crosslinks within the HIV RNA genome under different conditions i.e. in infected cells and in virions using a new method called HiCapR. These cross ...

DNA methylation is a highly studied epigenetic modification that is involved in regulating genome function and plays fundamental roles in development and disease. 1 It is linked to a broad range of ...

A new Center for American Progress analysis shows how House Republican health care cuts would cost many families with Medicaid, Medicare, ACA marketplace plans, and job-based coverage up to thousands ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Natera, Inc. (NTRA) (NASDAQ: NTRA), a global leader in cell-free DNA and precision medicine, today announced that its genome-based Signatera MRD assay is now covered ...