Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

Research reveals that five DNA letters can switch chromatin between fluid and solid-like states, influencing gene ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

If stretched out, human DNA would be about 2 meters long. For this long strand to fit inside the cell nucleus, which is about 0.01 mm in size, it must be tightly folded. DNA wraps around proteins call ...

The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, ...

But only a tiny percentage of our DNA – around 2% – contains our 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98% – long known as the non-coding genome, or so-called ‘junk’ DNA – includes many of the switches that ...

This discovery is a major step in potentially bringing back the extinct species.