Could a novel approach to genetic studies give us a clearer picture of how evolutionary adaptations occur? That's what the ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK ...

A single base change can create a devastating genetic disorder or a beneficial ... in a frameshift Cystic fibrosis Chromosomal mutation Inversion One region of a chromosome is flipped and ...

Conditional gene targeting based on excision or inversion of loxP-flanked DNA segments by Cre recombinase is a powerful technology for the analysis of gene function, but unexpected expression ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK Leibniz Institute (IPK) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

Results prove that inversions can be generated in plants without causing further unwanted changes in the expression of genetic information.