Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

Researchers reckon it could dramatically accelerate understanding of how DNA influences disease, cancer, and drug discovery.

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

In its fourth consecutive Super Bowl ad, the “He Gets Us” campaign is taking aim at the capitalist dream of “more.” The ...

The headline figure of lifespan being around “50% heritable” risks being misunderstood as meaning genes determine half of a ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

There’s more to dna than just the double helix we know and love: under some conditions this familiar molecule can take on ...

Our dna stores the information that makes us who we are, but that's not all it can do! There are applications for dna that go ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell says the criminal subpoena issued to him is about controlling interest rates and not any wrongdoing. Plus, the number of protestors killed in Iran continues to rise while ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons that can correct multiple disease-causing mutations at once. Unlike ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel method to enhance the precision of cancer treatment using gold nanoparticles tagged with DNA barcodes. A team of researchers from the National University of ...