DNA databases unite to create a fully open resource for transposable element research

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

Tiny DNA 'hitchhikers' may be reshaping life in thawing Arctic soils

Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.
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Scientists build synthetic cell that grows, divides and passes DNA to offspring

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed what they describe as the world’s ...
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First-ever synthetic cell grows, divides, replicates and could revolutionize biology

A tiny bubble of lipids, enzymes and DNA has done something biologists have chased for years: it carried out a full cycle of ...