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Laser-powered 'tweezers' reveal universal mechanism viruses use to package up DNA

Researchers have used laser-powered ‘optical tweezers’ to reveal a universal motor mechanism used by viruses for packaging their DNA into infectious particles. Researchers have used laser-powered ...
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The DNA from a single human cell would stretch about two meters if pulled into a line

Stretched into a single line, the DNA packed inside one human cell would reach roughly two meters, yet it folds into a nucleus just 5 to 10 micrometers wide. That compression ratio, on the order of ...
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Applied DNA Submits Validation Package to New York State Department of Health to Expand Linea Mpox Virus 1.0 Assay to Mpox Clade I

STONY BROOK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / August 23, 2024 / Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:APDN) (the "Company"), a leader in PCR-based DNA technologies, today announced that its wholly-owned clinical ...
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A new AI method revealed most of the DNA spools inside our cells sit partly unwound, not locked away, sorting into 14 distinct states tied to gene activity

Researchers have found that the DNA spools inside human cells are far less tightly wound than textbooks have long suggested.
Nature

EV DNA from pancreatic cancer patient-derived cells harbors molecular, coding, non-coding signatures and mutational hotspots

DNA packaged into cancer cell-derived EV is not well appreciated. Here, we uncovered signatures of EV DNA secreted by pancreatic cancer cells. The cancer cells and non-cancer counterparts exhibit ...