The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer ...

Cell phone extractions and DNA tests: this is what a FBI Safe Streets Task Force investigator says took Drexler Johnson’s ...

DNA strand displacement circuits are inching closer to becoming cellular machines. Scientists are finding ways to make these ...

The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks. Cells go to great lengths to maintain the ...

Despite its expanding legalization in the U.S., scientists are still learning about the effects of marijuana use. One recent ...

A Kobe University team was able to edit the DNA of Lactobacillus strains directly without a template from other organisms.

An international research team has provided a detailed insight into how the spatial organization of genetic material is established in the cell nucleus of early embryos within the first hours after ...

Their findings are published in Nucleic Acids Research. In most cells, DNA is wrapped around proteins called histones, allowing it to be loosely packed and accessible for gene activity. However, in ...

We don’t have these kinds of studies for the new blood testing, which is called cell-free DNA testing. For the new cell-free DNA testing, a small amount of a person’s blood is tested for a ...

A research team has unveiled a crucial mechanism that helps regulate DNA damage repair, with important implications for ...