Findings suggest that new genes can form by repurposing fragments of ancestral genes while incorporating entirely new coding regions (the protein-coding parts of the DNA). This innovative concept ...

From where do novel genes originate? In a recent study, a group of University of Arkansas researchers studying biological ...

To Model, or Not? Starting with coding (C) and noncoding (NC) AD risk variants identified in human studies (top), scientists ...

Where do new genes come from? That's the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer ...

Amielle Moreno earned her doctorate in neuroscience from Emory University and has dedicated her career to science communication, news coverage, and medical writing and editing. She is a published ...

Activation of macrophage TLR4 by bacterial endotoxins is important for the progression of sepsis, but the underlying ...

Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine the homing powers of DNA with the broad functional repertoire of proteins - ...

Exquisite insight into chromosome separation reveals the intricate relationships between molecular changes and large-scale ...