Every organ in our body contains a small number of adult stem cells that are specific to its niche. These cells act like a ...

A study by researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center published in Nature revises the standard story about transcription factors ...

Is Rosalind Franklin a ghost that still haunts the history of genomic science? Alan Booth looks into her remarkable story ...

Recently, Professor Frédéric Veyrier at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and his team developed a new genetic tool based on a family of specific enzymes called Ssn that allows ...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have made significant strides in understanding two key DNA repair pathways—offering much-needed clarity to an area of molecular biology that has long ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

The genome database will open up the possibility of personalised medicine, and faster and efficient diagnostics. It will also ...

Because RNAs are so central to our biology, they are also drivers of a wide array of diseases. Defects in how RNA is produced ...

Kanazawa University and colleagues have achieved a breakthrough in understanding sperm DNA packaging. Using high-speed atomic ...

Researchers have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA ...