Scientists have made a bold leap in the search for life’s origins, offering a fresh look at how chemistry might have crossed ...

Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Linköping (Sweden) have established ...

As previously mentioned, the location at which a DNA strand begins to unwind into two separate single strands is known as the origin of replication. As shown in Figure 1, when the double helix ...

The number of replication origin sequences in the genome does not change during the lifespan of an organism, but the number of active origins does vary according to the developmental stage. In the ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

Contemplating the origins of life fascinates both scientists ... of previously free-living organisms that adapted a parasitic replication strategy. Perhaps viruses existed before, and led to ...

Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Linköping (Sweden) have established ...

Gene syntax also affects the behavior of genetic circuits, and contributes to unpredictable outcomes in genetic networks.

More information: Shigeru Matsuda et al, TEFM facilitates transition from RNA synthesis to DNA synthesis at H-strand ...

Saccharin destabilizes bacterial membranes and interferes with DNA replication, causing lysis and impairing virulence traits. The sweetener also re-sensitizes multidrug-resistant pathogens to ...

In eukaryotes, DNA replication initiates at many replication origins that are distributed along the length of each chromosome arm. At each origin, two replication forks are established that travel in ...