WashU biologists, led by Xuehua Zhong in Arts & Sciences, investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their ...

A Washington University study shows how plants use specialized enzymes, CMT2 and CMT3, to add methyl groups to DNA, ...

CallaghanDNA has been used for years to store data, but encoding information into the molecule is painstaking work. Now, ...

Experts have revealed the origins of a unique DNA duplication mechanism that grants plants additional ways to control genetic instructions.

Then they used a chemical reaction to add a methyl group, which is a molecule made from carbon and hydrogen, to some of these ...

Researchers from Arizona State University and international collaborators have unveiled a method that significantly increases ...

Bricks’ of DNA, some of which have chemical tags, could one day be an alternative to storing information electronically.

Two images were stored in and retrieved from DNA sequences faster than ever before. This could be a game-changer for our data ...

Researchers followed nearly 4,000 people for 24 years from the time of enrollment in the study in 1994. Researchers reviewed ...

One such modification is DNA methylation, the addition of molecules called methyl groups to cytosine (C), one of the four "letters" within DNA's code. Methylation often occurs when C sits next to ...

Chemists in Canada have uncovered a surprising conformational effect using cyclopropane that provides a way to influence the ...

For instance, in normal, healthy mice, the agouti genes are kept in the "off" position by the epigenome, which attaches methyl groups to the corresponding regions of DNA, resulting in the DNA's ...