Human Sperm Is Rewriting DNA Earlier Than We Realized

Some genetic variation in sperm may begin earlier in development than scientists previously recognized. New evidence suggests ...

New findings explain how cells assemble machinery to repair damaged DNA

A cell's ability to repair its damaged DNA is one of the most fundamental processes in biology, helping protect us from ...
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Cold Temperatures Rewire Plant Recombination Through a Chromosome Brake Called SNI1

When the weather turns cold, plants do more than slow their growth. Deep inside their reproductive cells, the very machinery ...
Tech Times

Biodiversity AI Raises $140M to Deliver Gene Therapy Without Factories

AI-designed gene therapy company Basecamp Research closed a $140 million Series C to train EDEN biological AI models on ...
Nature

A plant that reproduces sexually but has clone-like offspring

However, one plant — a South American beak-sedge called Rhynchospora tenuis — seems to represent a striking exception. Previous studies have reported that R. tenuis lacks crossover during male meiosis ...
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Founded by Few: Sand Lizard Experiment Reveals How Admixture Rescues Genetic Diversity

The establishment of new populations from small groups of founders is one of the most common scenarios in modern conservation ...

For High School Students Who Want to Study Everything from Lactic Acid Bacteria to Gut Microbiota Applications | Tokyo University of Agriculture, Laboratory of Applied Microbiology

Nice to meet you, we are "Kenro".We provide information to help you think about science-related career paths, covering the details of laboratories that you cannot understand from just the "university ...

Genetic 'barcodes' could explain why chromosomes recognize one another

Repetitive satellite DNA in fruit flies appears to act like a chromosome-specific barcode, helping matching chromosome pairs find each other during meiosis. When researchers disrupted satellite DNA ...