But a new study suggests that these parallels are a bit of an accident, and digits come by re-deploying a genetic network that controls a completely different process: the formation of the cloaca, a ...

How did digits evolve? While it is clear that they derive from genetic programs already present in fish, their precise origin ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...

Previous researches on DNA included topics of bases, base-pairing, hydrogen bonds, structure, base sequence, dynamics, ...

Epigenetics, a relatively underappreciated field by those unfamiliar with its significance, holds profound implications for our overall health and well-being. Simply put, epigenetics explores how ...

A gene called DNMT3A is important for guiding blood stem cells into forming all the cell types present in blood, including ...

Challen A gene called DNMT3A is important for guiding blood stem cells into forming all the cell types present in blood, ...