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Researchers from The University of Osaka reveal that genetic changes following the loss of heterochromatin can lead to ...

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Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

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Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s ...

This important study, which tackles the challenge of analyzing genome integrity and instability in unicellular pathogens by introducing a novel single-cell genomics approach, presents compelling ...