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 ...

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

Cells use many complex genetic repair backup systems to fix DNA damage and remain healthy throughout their lives.

RNA vaccines train the immune system in a similar way to traditional vaccines, but they use a different strategy to get there.

When the mechanisms that replicate or repair mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) fail, it can cause a wide range of syndromes for which ...

To grow, cancer tumors must hijack the immune system for their needs. One of the main tricks that most tumors use is to ...

Before Watson and Crick basked in Nobel glory, before The Double Helix mythologized their genius, there was the photo. Photo 51 — crisp, clear, and groundbreaking — captured by Dr. Rosalind Franklin, ...

The Charleston police opened a new DNA testing lab with the capability of efficiently analyzing samples in the hopes of ...

A medical breakthrough could result in the first treatment for rare but serious diseases in which genetic defects disrupt cellular energy production.