Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that acts like a traffic controller for DNA, preventing damage during cell ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...

Understanding the interaction between immune cells and cancer cells has important implications for cancer immunotherapies, ...

A forgotten biochemist’s radical model for the emergence of life is making a surprising comeback—half a century after it was ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed that your mom and dad’s DNA don’t just pass on telomere length, they actively reshape it ...

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals that cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) promote DNA replication licensing in human cells by relieving inhibitory signals ...

On remote islands of Papua New Guinea, people carry a story that ties us all back to our deepest roots. Although their striking appearance once puzzled scientists, new genetic evidence shows they ...

WE BEGIN AT NOON WITH BREAKING NEWS. THE SPARTANBURG COUNTY CORONER’S OFFICE HAS IDENTIFIED SKELETAL REMAINS THAT WERE FOUND IN 2011. CAITLIN ASH WAS AT THE CORONER’S OFFICE WITH THE LATEST. CAITLIN.

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed ...

Department of Geophysics, Yunnan University, Kunming, China. DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, carrying encoded genetic information at molecular level, is the most significant discovery in the history of ...