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

The data revealed 82 specific locations (or loci) in the human genome associated with viral DNA load, especially in the Major ...

A Université de Montréal study has found a previously unknown mechanism in bacterial reproduction that could be attacked by ...

More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising secret about our DNA: it’s not a static blueprint, but a constantly shifting, folding ...

Over the past three decades, the collection of DNA from convicted criminals has become standard in the U.S. justice system, ...

Paras Gaur, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iowa, investigates DNA damage repair and G-quadruplex structures ...

Researchers have identified genetic material from a vast range of organisms contaminating the shroud, said to have wrapped ...

When patients develop a narrowing or blockage in the bile ducts – the tubes connecting the liver, gallbladder and intestines – physicians must determine whether the cause is cancer or a benign ...

A chicken egg at Neion Bio, a biotech start-up, receiving a microinjection. The company aims to to turn chicken eggs into ...

Some of the signs of aging in human cells originate in the cell nucleus, because the packaged form of DNA changes with age.