Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion ...

The human genome can have some quirky features, like copy number variation. When this happens, an individual carries, or loses bits of DNA, which ... | Genetics And Genomics ...

Using the “less, but more” model, a study by the University of Barcelona identifies how massive gene losses followed by extensive gene duplications can generate evolutionary adaptations in species.

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They then deployed genome sequencing to analyse the genetic effects of these structural variations on cell survival. It ...

Reaction to the Government’s major overhaul of the country’s seven crown research organisations has so far been largely ...

This manuscript describes an important finding of the transcriptional control of a chimeric gene transfer agents (GTA) cluster in Bartonella by a processive anti-termination factor (BrrG). The ...

Gene regulation refers to the mechanisms that act to induce or repress the expression of a gene. These include structural and chemical changes to the genetic material, binding of proteins to ...

In addition, epigenetics is important for X-chromosome inactivation in female mammals, which is necessary so that females do not have twice the number of X-chromosome gene products as males (Egger ...