Crispr gave humans the power to remake ourselves. What will we do with it?

On June 28, 2012, the most significant scientific breakthrough of the first quarter of the 21st century was announced to the ...
Science Daily

Scientists finally read the hidden DNA code that shapes disease

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

Hitchhiking DNA picked up by a gene may save a species from extinction

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...
eLife

Herbivorous insects independently evolved salivary effectors to regulate plant immunity by destabilizing the malectin-LRR RLP NtRLP4

State Key Laboratory for Quality and Safety of Agro-Products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MARA, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Green Plant Protection, Institute of Plant ...
eLife

The genetic control of rapid genome content divergence in Arabidopsis thaliana

This important study systematically investigates repeat expansion in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana using a new k-mer-based method, expanding on smaller studies to more comprehensively identify cis- ...