Sequence motifs are short, recurring patterns in DNA that are presumed to have a biological function. Often they indicate sequence-specific binding sites for proteins such as nucleases and ...

DNA has two strands. Each strand is a sequence of four chemical bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). The strands are anti-parallel and complementary. ‘Anti-parallel ...

Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS)—the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer ...

The first DNA sequence to be preserved in such a manner was seen in the movie Jurassic Park.In the film franchise, DNA preserved in amber was used to bring a population of long-extinct dinosaurs ...

CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world. The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell.

A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

For example, every research sample, such as a tube with a DNA plasmid, has two facets: a computer record that contains information about the sequence or provides a plasmid map and then there's the ...

Through a computational biology step, so-called ‘barcode regions’ of DNA can then be used to identify, broadly speaking, which types of organisms were, or had recently been, present in the samples.