A portion of our genome that was once dismissed as being “junk” may actually play an important role in regulating gene ...

The DNA in our cells is constantly damaged, with the most severe being the simultaneous breakage of both strands that compose ...

Once dismissed as “junk,” pieces of ancient viral DNA in our genome are now known to help control which genes are turned on or off.

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

During DNA replication, the classic double helix can temporarily rearrange into an alternative structure known as a DNA three ...

Scientists have twisted DNA into programmable nanostructures that form themselves — and could reshape future materials for light, sound, and electronics.

Professor Kojima-Yuasa's team used compounds of nucleic acids derived from salmon milt DNA and torula yeast RNA and showed that ... The compounds stopped the cells from starting their replication ...

Controversial World-First Project To Create Human DNA From Scratch Takes First Steps The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ...

The Supreme Court released decisions Thursday on Planned Parenthood, DNA testing and the First Step Act geared towards bringing down certain prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes.

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such structure, the G-quadruplex (G4), looks like a knot.

Strengths: Understanding the mechanism of how DNA replication restarts via reloading the replisomes onto abandoned DNA replication forks is crucial. Notably, this knowledge becomes crucial to ...