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Cryo-EM revealed HIV-1 integrase’s distinct structures as it shifts between its two roles of DNA integration and RNA-binding.

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American geneticist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. Born on April 6, 1928 in ...

Hosts David and Gina explore how scientists over the centuries unlocked the ability to edit our genes ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exhibits a degree of resistance to mutagenesis under genotoxic stress, and this study on the mitochondrial Transcription Factor A (TFAM) presents valuable data concerning the ...

Researchers have found a new way to reactivate fetal hemoglobin without the need for gene-editing therapy, according to a new study.

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Scientists extracted 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen woolly mammoth, revealing which genes were active when it died.