A team of scientists at the University of Seville has identified an essential process that protects DNA integrity in reproductive cells, providing new clues about how organisms avoid genetic defects ...

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

The revolutionary tool uncovers where small hammerhead sharks still survive — and how science could save them.

Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

Bowhead whales, Earth's longest-living mammals, produce a unique protein that repairs DNA damage. This discovery could help ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

Priority Research Communication by Professor Yogesh Dwivedi and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reports original, peer-reviewed findings demonstrating that long noncoding RNAs ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

Brains with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) show DNA damage similar to Alzheimer’s. Study links genetic stress to ...

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.

Within each cell, there is a constant struggle between life-sustaining molecules and molecules that could hasten its demise. For the first time, scientists have created a molecule that can identify ...