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A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

The researchers focused on Fanconi anemia, a rare inherited disorder characterized by a failure to repair specific types of ...

Different teams need to make the same conclusion multiple times before a consensus is reached and the finding can be built ...

Analysis of more than one million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

Inside cells, DNA twists and coils itself into a variety of different secondary structures—including i-motifs (iMs) and ...