Processes such as transcription and replication require the two strands of DNA to come apart temporarily, thus allowing polymerases access to the DNA template. However, the presence of nucleosomes ...

This valuable study presents findings on DNA methylation as an efficient epigenetic transcriptional regulating strategy in bacteria. The authors utilized single-molecule real-time sequencing to ...

Figure 5. Schematic diagram of critical proteins required for the replication and transcription of mtDNA. TWINKLE is an mtDNA helicase that catalyzes the unwinding of duplex DNA using energy from NTP ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future? Eske Willerslev was on a tour of Montreal’s Redpath Museum, a Victorian-era ...

When Dwight recalled his experience of the Bubble, it was the uncountable DNA swabs that were foremost on his mind. “That’s the part that was stressing me out. I’m like, it’s only players here, we ...

Nearly six years after DNA analysts claimed to identify the notorious London serial killer known as “Jack the Ripper,” a victim’s family is demanding a police investigation into the claims.

New DNA evidence has revealed the identity of Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber, more than 130 years after the brutal murders that terrorized Victorian London. Historian and author ...

Comprehensive & taxonomy-independent database Bakta provides a large and taxonomy-independent database using UniProt's entire UniRef protein sequence cluster universe. Thus, it achieves favourable ...

Over a century after he murdered and mutilated London women in 1888, the long-mythologized killer’s identity has allegedly been confirmed by DNA found on a shawl, historian Russell Edwards said.

British historian Russell Edwards claims to have identified Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski using DNA evidence from a crime scene. Kosminski, a mentally ill Polish immigrant, allegedly committed ...

Calculations suggest that our solar system floated through the Local Bubble, an area of sparse gas shaped by the explosions ... Researchers believe that once DNA strands are damaged, viral replication ...