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A new study published in Nature reveals how olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) achieve extraordinary precision in selecting ...

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

Early research shows that editing expanding trinucleotide repeats halts the lengthening process that causes neurological ...

Researchers have developed a way to edit the genetic sequences at the root of Huntington's disease and Friedreich's ataxia. If longer than a certain threshold length, these sequences grow in length ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Participants taking 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily had significantly less telomere loss over four years, study finds.

Vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with aging, a large study shows. But ...

Results from the VITAL randomized controlled trial reveal that vitamin D supplementation helps maintain telomeres, protective ...

Identifying and classifying gene mutations—which are the permanent changes in a person's DNA genetic code—are critical in ...

An STR is a short sequence of base-pairs on the DNA that is repeated some number of times, such as GATCGATCGATCGATC (on the complementary strand, this STR will have the sequence CTAGCTAGCTAGCTAG).