Men Lose Their Y Chromosome as They Age. Here's What That Does

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male ...

All Life on Earth Shares an Ancestor – And Some of Our Genes Predate It

"By following universal paralogs," says Kaçar, "we can connect the earliest steps of life on Earth to the tools of modern ...
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Cellecta, Inc. Launches Blood Microsampling Assay that Profiles 19,000 Human Protein-Coding Genes from One Drop of Dried Blood

Cellecta, Inc. Launches Blood Microsampling Assay that Profiles 19,000 Human Protein-Coding Genes from One Drop of Dried Blood Provided by PR Newswire May 6, 2025, 12:09:00 PM Cellecta, Inc. Launches ...
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Unexpected RNA Role Discovered Inside Protein-Coding Gene

IPA, a non-coding RNA from the CUL1 gene that stabilizes the nucleolus and supports ribosome production. Removing it ...
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New Review out in Nature Reviews Genetics - Emergence and evolution of protein-coding de novo genes

A new review by Erich Bornberg-Bauer and Lars A. Eicholt summarizes current understanding of protein-coding de novo genes—genes that originate from previously non-coding DNA. Once considered rare or ...