Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

Speculation about his parentage has dogged the Duke of Sussex throughout his life, but an AI-generated clip did nothing to ...

High-resolution imaging has revealed the internal layout of chromatin condensates, showing how DNA fibers fold and interact ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break—when both ...

Cedars-Sinai scientists have developed an experimental drug that repairs DNA and serves as a prototype for a new class of ...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a coffee cup.

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

New ultra-detailed imaging exposes the hidden structure and behavior of chromatin condensates — and hints at how their ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...