For over a century, scientists have analyzed the vast microbial world within the human body. They’ve found bacteria, fungi, ...

DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another—are key to bacterial evolution and the development of ...

Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements, can replicate and reintegrate themselves into the genome, posing a threat to genomic integrity by inducing DNA rearrangements and ...

Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements as they can replicate and reinsert themselves in the ...

Insect miRNAs can be transferred to their host plants upon feeding. This study shows that a conserved insect microRNA plays a ...

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DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers have long struggled to understand how cancer cells hijack one of these ...

The Wooly Devil is a belly plant, meaning it is so small that it can only be properly seen when lying on the ground.

Framed in this single, starry, telescopic field of view are two open star clusters, M35 and NGC 2158. Less-bright, non-blue stars like our Sun surely also exist in this M41 star cluster but are harder ...

People in the U.K. who have already had norovirus this season could still be at risk due to a shift in circulating strains, ...

SARS-CoV-2 secondary structure shapes mutation frequencies, constraining viral evolution models predicting fitness can benefit from integrating secondary structure data.

To become infectious, HIV has to undergo a maturation process, which involves a rearrangement of the matrix proteins (red).