At school, it's often presented as a tidy double helix but scientists are revealing the varied and intricate shapes of DNA ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Two conversations on Make It Make Sense dug into the topic of stem cell donation and why it matters.

The translocation most typically found in mantle cell lymphoma drags a powerful regulatory element into a new area of the human genome.

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

A research team at Kyoto University has discovered STAG3-cohesin, a new mitotic cohesin complex that helps establish the ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study has revealed how a common inherited mutation disrupts red blood cell development and sparks ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell ...

High levels of donor-derived cell-free DNA may identify biopsy-proven rejection risk for transplant recipients, according to ...

DNA is found in nearly all living cells. However, its exact location within a cell depends on whether that cell possesses a special membrane-bound organelle called a nucleus.

A DNA hydrogel engineered from tetrahedral nanostructures accelerates burn wound healing by directing immune cell behavior, ...

Cell division is the mechanism by which DNA is passed from one generation of cells to the next and ultimately, from parent organisms to their offspring. Although eukaryotes and prokaryotes both ...

Microbes found buried deep in Siberian permafrost may be able to survive over extremely long timescales using protein repair ...