The clinical importance of gene amplification in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer has been widely recognized, as it is often evident in advanced stages of diseases. However, our knowledge of the ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 84, No. 8 (Apr. 15, 1987), pp. 2165-2169 (5 pages) Most small multicopy antibiotic-resistance plasmids of ...

The startling research paper detailing the first-ever attempt to edit the genome of human embryos has aroused a great deal of interest and some alarm, but the nature of the DNA editing technique, ...

The number 1888081808881 is interesting on several counts. First, it’s a prime number, evenly divisible only by itself and 1. In base 10, it’s also a palindromic number. It has the same sequence of ...

As the human genome gradually yields up its secrets, scientists are finding some genetic events, such as rearrangements in chromosomes, are less random than they had previously thought. Originating as ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — April comes to a close with 10 days that read the same forward as they do backward. That’s because any word, phrases or sequence that reads the same in both directions is known ...