The future of data storage is double-helical, research indicates
Imagine Bach's "Cello Suite No. 1" played on a strand of DNA.
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Leaving gaps in the genome to breed maize plants with low susceptibility to frost and drought damage
The use of genetic information is now indispensable for modern plant breeding. Even though DNA sequencing has become much cheaper since the human genome was decoded for the very first time in 2003, collecting the full genetic ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2022
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Effect of small polyanions on retroviruses
A retrovirus is a virus that inserts a copy of its genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades, thus changing that cell's genome. Once inside the host cell's cytoplasm, the virus uses its reverse transcriptase enzyme ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 26, 2021
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Proceeding with Caution: First global guidelines proposed for ancient DNA research
As ancient DNA research sweeps the globe, ballooning from zero genomes sequenced as of 2009 to more than 6,000 as of 2021, those involved in and affected by the genetic analysis of human remains have pressed with ever greater ...
Archaeology
Oct 20, 2021
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Durability, docility genes solve domestic horse origins mystery
Humans tamed horses some 4,200 years ago in the northern Caucasus region of what is today southwestern Russia, a study said Wednesday, solving the centuries-old mystery of where and when the process began that led to today's ...
Archaeology
Oct 20, 2021
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Prehistoric humans rarely mated with their cousins
Today, more than 10 percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. While cousin-marriages are common practice in some societies, unions between close relatives are discouraged in others. In a new study, ...
Archaeology
Sep 14, 2021
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New study shows the potential of DNA-based data-structures systems
Newcastle University research offers important insights into how we could turn DNA into a green-by-design data structure that organises data like conventional computers.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 13, 2021
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When one become two: Separating DNA for more accurate nanopore analysis
A new software tool developed by Earlham Institute researchers will help bioinformaticians improve the quality and accuracy of their biological data, and avoid mis-assemblies. The fast, lightweight, user-friendly tool visualizes ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 18, 2021
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Neanderthal ancestry identifies oldest modern human genome
Ancient DNA from Neandertals and early modern humans has recently shown that the groups likely interbred somewhere in the Near East after modern humans left Africa some 50,000 years ago. As a result, all people outside Africa ...
Evolution
Apr 7, 2021
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Study finds microbial-plant interactions affect the microbial response to climate change
University of California, Irvine, biologists have discovered that plants influence how their bacterial and fungal neighbors react to climate change. This finding contributes crucial new information to a hot topic in environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2021
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