Call it the science of small, but a trio of University of Florida chemical engineers have developed a lab-on-a-chip process that could make a big difference for DNA research and, ultimately, patients.

Purification removes contaminants from DNA samples, ensuring the integrity of the genetic material and providing more ...

A genome is the complete set of genetic information contained within an organism. It includes all the DNA that makes up an organism's chromosomes, which are tightly coiled structures located in the ...

Some areas remain rigid and coiled, silencing genes ... Related Stories ・Researchers solve the mystery of 50,000 DNA “knots” in the human genome The VECTOR system reveals that chromatin ...

Therefore, chromatin is further coiled into an even shorter ... When eukaryotic cells divide, genomic DNA must be equally partitioned into both daughter cells. To accomplish this, the DNA becomes ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Genome and mutations DNA replication is carefully controlled to preserve the genetic information. However, changes in the genome do sometimes occur. These changes are known as mutations.

The fluid flow distorts coiled DNA into elongated shapes ... “Long-read sequencers can recognize regions of the genome that are hard to identify from short sequences but are suspected to ...