In August 2017, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) launched the Major Research Plan “Dynamic ...

Plasticity in cancer cells describes their inherent ability to undergo alterations and turn certain features on and off at different times.  This flex | Cancer ...

DNA phosphorothioate modification is a distinctive epigenetic alteration in which a non‐bridging oxygen atom within the DNA sugar-phosphate backbone is replaced by ...

DNA has tremendous potential as a data storage medium, but the process of synthesizing DNA from scratch is time-consuming. It has to be done one nucleotide at a time in a specific sequence. New ...

Scientists are uncovering the secrets of a fast-acting molecular messaging network that strongly influences how people and ...

The Human Genome Project changed everything. A map of the entire human sequence of DNA was the starting point for an enormous number of discoveries, from disease genes to how humans evolved. But DNA ...

Researchers reveal epigenetic memory works like a dimmer switch, enabling more cell types than previously recognized.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have invented a new way to map specific DNA markings called 5-methylcytosine (5mC) which regulate gene expression and ...

Histones are among the most abundant proteins in the body. They act as spools that help compact DNA so our enormous genomes will fit in the tight space of the nucleus. Each spool is made of eight ...

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers led by Xiaoqi Feng at the Institute of Science and Technology ...