One of the biggest surprises in molecular biology was the discovery in 1977 that coding information in genes is interrupted by non-coding sequences known as introns. Much has since been learned about ...

An aptitude for mentally stringing together related items, often cited as a hallmark of human language, may have deep roots in primate evolution, a new study suggests. But “this work shows that the ...

The DNA sequences containing multifarious novel symmetrical structure frequently play crucial role in how genomes work. Here we present a new scheme for understanding the structural features and ...