DNA, often called the blueprint of life, is built from four chemical building blocks known as deoxy-nucleoside triphosphates ...

Scientists create microscopic DNA 'flower robots' that can deliver drugs, heal wounds and even clean the planet Scientists ...

Some scientists instead believe Dsup acts like a shield. In this model, Dsup coats and physically blocks radiation from striking DNA. Others think it boosts the cell’s repair machinery, fixing damage ...

The rings of DNA inside mitochondria are inaccessible to these techniques, which means that precise edits to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) remain frustratingly out of reach. “Mitochondria missed the ...

In New Jersey, a group of parents has revived a constitutional challenge against the state’s long-standing practice of ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have developed microscopic soft robots shaped like flowers that can change ...

By tweaking the epigenetic state of a single gene, Arc, inside memory-storing neurons, researchers have altered memory ...

A multidisciplinary team of scientists led by The Wistar Institute, including Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...

The 39-year-old is to go on trial later this month for damaging a mirror and the door of the prison cell he was being ...

By shuttling silver and mercury between binding sites in DNA, scientists make the molecule switch conductance levels like a ...

Scientists studying tiny roundworms have uncovered how the secrets of a long life can be passed from parents to their offspring — without changing DNA. The discovery shows that when certain cellular ...