Here's everything you need to know about the groundbreaking technology. "Short palindromic repeats" refers to sequences that read the same forward and backward, like the words "kayak" and "racecar." ...

(It stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.) At the time, many researchers assumed that the 'spacer' sequences were junk, but in 2005, Pennisi notes, three different ...

Hence, the origin of these palindromic sequences has puzzled researchers ... was to model the gene history using a custom computer algorithm. According to postdoctoral researcher Heli Mönttinen ...

That’s because any word, phrases or sequence that reads the same in both directions is known as a “palindrome.” This fun and rare occurrence stretches from April 20, 2024 to April 29 ...