Unexpected slowdowns or spikes in this signal were often interpreted as knots in DNA. But now, a new study published Aug. 12 ...

Scientists at Kyoto University have uncovered a hidden protein complex that organizes DNA in sperm stem cells, a discovery ...

At school, it's often presented as a tidy double helix but scientists are revealing the varied and intricate shapes of DNA ...

DNA doesn’t knot under stress. A new study finds it coils into plectonemes, reshaping models of genome mechanics. For decades ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

Recent studies show that senescent cells accumulate several species of cytosolic DNAs, including mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), cytoplasmic chromatin fragments (CCFs), and retrotransposable element cDNAs, ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Cancer cells are notoriously flexible, taking on new features as they move around the body. Many of these changes are due to ...

High levels of donor-derived cell-free DNA may identify biopsy-proven rejection risk for transplant recipients, according to ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these mutations cause serious diseases that pass down only through mothers ...