Biologists found a way to identify and study low-complexity regions of proteins. The technique allows them to analyze similarities and differences between LCRs from different species, and helps ...

Regions of the genome with repetitive sequences are difficult to selectively edit because it’s hard to control which of the repeated sections will be edited. Ribosomes, the molecular machines that ...

16S rRNA gene sequencing has been widely used to decipher bacterial communities. The bacterial 16S contains nine hypervariable regions (V1–V9) along with highly conserved sequences between these ...

Since Haemophilus influenzae became the first organism to have its entire genome sequenced in 1995, there are now thousands of completed genomes covering archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. However, the ...