New scientific work is quietly redrawing the master timeline of ancient Egypt, shifting key dynasties and even the start of ...

By setting up both reactions side by side in a test tube, the team revealed a literal tug-of-war between two DNA-repair pathways acting on the same HTT repeat. Which side wins likely determines ...

With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

A cutting-edge therapy using base-edited immune cells is offering a major breakthrough for patients with one of the toughest ...

Cancer isn't just about broken genes-it's about broken architecture. Imagine a city where roads suddenly vanish, cutting off neighborhoods from essential services.

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

A recent study highlights how DNA microarray technology enables high-throughput gene analysis, supporting variation detection, expression ...

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

The developmental period is a critical window during which environmental cues interact with the genome to shape lifelong trajectories of health and disease.

DNA can sustain serious injuries called double strand breaks, in which both strands of the helix snap. These breaks are among ...