A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have published a new blood test designed to detect multiple cancers ...

Discovery reshapes understanding of how tumor cells repair broken DNA, pointing toward more precise cancer therapies.

As climate change outpaces the ability of ecosystems to adapt, scientists are turning to conservation genomics to guide ...

What if the Trojan horse had been pulled to pieces, revealing the ruse and fending off the invasion, just as it entered the ...

Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

DNA inside the nucleus is not packed as a rigid regular fiber—linker histone H1 dynamically binds and loosely "glues" ...

Short tandem repeat profiling of bathwater showed that DNA quantity jumps sharply after a person is immersed in the water for ...

As many DNA datasets are openly accessible online, the study warns it is possible for cybercriminals to misuse the information for surveillance, manipulation, or malicious experimentation. Dr Anjum ...

A key feature of this process is natural competence, the ability of bacteria to take up free DNA from their surroundings. V. cholerae becomes naturally competent when it grows on chitinous surfaces, a ...

Salk scientists have created a platform to study mitochondrial DNA mutations that lead or contribute to human disease, and ...

New rare genetic variants are linked to ALS, expanding understanding of genetic contributors. About a quarter of ALS cases have an identifiable genetic contributor. Findings support broader use of ...