Much of the "junk" DNA in Drosophila shows signs of either negative or positive selection, according to a study in this week's Nature. An analysis by Peter Andolfatto of the University of California, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with teams from Lund University and the Center for Regenerative ...

Swiss start-up Haya Therapeutics has formed a partnership with Eli Lilly – worth up to $1 billion – to look for new therapies for obesity in non-coding DNA. The biotech focuses on trawling the ...

Fathers exposed to high stress in childhood had different epigenetic markers that may affect their offspring, though more ...

The involvement of noncoding mRNAs in many regulatory processes ... that an "RNA world" may have preceded the evolution of DNA and proteins (Gilbert, 1986). Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs ...

First, both coding and noncoding regions of DNA are transcribed into mRNA. Some regions are removed (introns) during initial mRNA processing. The remaining exons are then spliced together ...

Imperial College London molecular biologist and author Nessa Carey details this transformation and the progress science has made in her latest book, Junk DNA. Carey examines the importance of ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have mapped the genome of the Iberian ribbed newt and revealed how the composition and ...

Researchers have successfully applied advanced artificial intelligence (AI) genetics models to Parkinson's disease. Researchers identified genetic factors in progression and FDA-approved drugs that ...