An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital role in gene expression.

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

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

Unexpected slowdowns or spikes in this signal were often interpreted as knots in DNA. But now, a new study published Aug. 12 ...

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

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

The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a copy of its DNA. That's almost 120,000 base pairs per second. At that ...

A protein found in our cells has emerged as a secret weapon against biological aging, acting like a glue to repair damaged DNA and ward off neurological degeneration including that seen in motor ...

These extracts contain almost everything found inside a real cell, especially proteins needed for DNA replication and repair. This setup allowed the team to introduce DNA with G4 structures and ...

The scientists found that within an hour of infection, HSV-1 co-opts two genes — RNA polymerase II (RNAP 2) and DNA topoisomerase (TOP1) — that compact the host’s chromatin into super-dense ...