Carrie Eckert is t he leader of the Synthetic Biology Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in ...

David Baker's lab at the University of Washington is announcing two major leaps in the field of AI-powered protein design.

DNA-binding proteins are proteins that bind to single- or double-stranded DNA, generally in the major groove if the binding is sequence-specific – as with transcription factors that regulate ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Figure 1: a, Amino acid sequences of recombinant Sso7d and Sac7d. The molecular surface of Sso7d is irregular with numerous ridges and valleys (Fig. 2a). The excellent matching of shapes and charges ...

Pyrrolysine is an important component of methyltransferase enzymes, which the archaea use to metabolize methylamine in the environment. “The need for that metabolism and availability of the machinery ...

Dr. Alex de Mendoza, Reader in Evolutionary Epigenomics at Queen Mary University of London, who led the study, said, "This discovery reveals that some unicellular eukaryotes have more intricate DNA ...

Zed, a new code editor and IDE, is currently in its early stages but already turning heads in the software development world. Unlike Visual Studio Code, it's platform-native, written in Rust for ...