At the scale of individual cells, the human body is constantly in motion. Every second, millions of cells divide, ...
Two new federally funded studies offer detailed views of proteins repairing broken DNA inside tightly packed chromatin, and of the molecular toolkit they assemble at a break, with potential implicatio ...
Ancient DNA reveals that plague repeatedly returned to Europe for more than 400 years after the Black Death, evolving into ...
Scientists have shown that biology can read an eight-letter DNA alphabet, opening new possibilities for synthetic life and ...
STAS lung adenocarcinoma shows worse DFS and a distinct genomic profile marked by TP53 mutations, genomic instability and ...
Understanding gene regulation may be key to interpreting human disease genetics. Genes are regulated in part by stretches of ...
DNA is a double helix.”This is a fact so famous that it now appears in middle and high school textbooks. However, when you learn the details of how this shape was discovered, you realize it is not a ...
After an injury, DNA not only alters its activity but also the way it is organized spatially within the cell nucleus.
Every known organism writes genetic information with four DNA letters, but laboratory chemistry is not limited to that ...
DNA molecules should repel one another because their backbones carry the same negative charge. Yet inside cells, DNA ...
Every person alive carries between 0.5% and 1% of their genome from a hominin that has no name, no fossils, and no sequenced ...