University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers looked billions of years into the past to learn more about the potential ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one species has been implicated in colorectal cancer ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

These are all known as eukaryotes. Eukaryotic genomes are far more intricate than bacterial ones. Some DNA snippets, for example, have specific functions, such as turning a gene on or off. Others ...

For the first time ever, a synthetic eukaryotic genome has been created. By taking yeast cells and rebuilding their genomes, scientists were able to create a yeast that more resilient and produced ...

Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Scientists created the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome from S. cerevisiae and a new-to-nature tRNA neochromosome ...

A similar clean-slate approach is the guiding principle behind an international effort to create the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome — the set of molecular instructions that govern complex ...

A revolution in biomedicine is currently underway, driven by the application of genome engineering tools such as the prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas9. New genome editing systems continue to be identified ...

Elizabeth Kellogg, PhD, St. Jude Department of Structural Biology, used cryo-EM to study the evolutionary journey of Fanzor2, a compact eukaryotic genome-editing protein with huge potential.

An article by UAB professor Joan-Ramon Daban analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have ...

The smallest known eukaryotic genome, found in a unicellular fungal parasite, is 2.6 million base pairs. But most of the longest genomes belong to plants.