UC San Diego researchers have identified a frequently used DNA activation code that could eventually be used to control gene activation in biotechnology and biomedical applications. Their findings ...

Biologists have used machine learning, a type of AI, to identify 'synthetic extreme' DNA sequences with specifically designed functions in gene activation. They tested 50 million DNA sequences and ...

Scientists have long known that human genes spring into action through instructions delivered by the precise order of our DNA, directed by the four different types of individual links, or "bases," ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new wave of research is forcing a rethink, showing that the three-dimensional ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

The study provides a genome-wide map of the interactions between these regulatory elements of liver regeneration and the key genes involved in this process. From left to right, Montserrat Corominas, ...