Bacterial defense system builds DNA in unexpected new way to stop viruses

Scientists at Stanford University have discovered that DRT3, a unique defense system found in bacteria, creates DNA to ...

Scientists Just Discovered How an Infamous Organism Is Creating Brand New DNA

In a new study, scientists analyzed one such strategy used by the bacterium Escherichia coli. One of the enzymes in the ...
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Humans and Neanderthals share ancient DNA linked to human language

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be ...

DNA Can Be Built in a Way We've Never Seen Before, Study Finds

Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...

Unexpected food DNA found on cloth believed to have wrapped Jesus, study reveals

A new study found DNA from vegetables and grains on the Shroud of Turin, long connected to Jesus — suggesting the ancient ...

Neanderthals may have shared key DNA for complex language, reshaping when human speech began

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...

Genome Sequencing Solves Rare Disease Mysteries

Clinical genome sequencing now delivers genetic diagnoses for about 1 in 4 suspected rare disease patients, guiding targeted ...
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DNA polymerases can generate long DNA sequences without templates

New research has discovered that the molecular machines responsible for copying our DNA have a surprising hidden talent: an ability to create entirely new and highly sophisticated DNA sequences from ...