Researchers have unveiled a novel immune mechanism by which tandem kinases combat pathogen invasion: an atypical NLR protein, ...

Instead of comparing every residue against each other, BLAST uses short “word” (w) segments to create alignment "seeds." BLAST is designed to create a word list from the query sequence with ...

Online resources like the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) provide a helping hand. Although the computer science principles behind BLAST have been around for some time, prior to BLAST ...

The paper of record noted that former President Donald Trump is "reviving" an "old habit" — "invoking his long-held fascination with genes and genetics" in the weeks before the election.