Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

New research adds to our understanding of the function of the human genome. An international team of researchers has made ...

Before we understood that DNA was the genetic code, scientists knew that bacteria transferred it between cells. In 1928, 25 years before the structure of DNA was solved, British bacteriologist ...

the researchers used an advanced home-built microscope to look at single proteins on individual DNA molecules. That in itself is an impressive achievement, as Barth explains: ”A single cell contains ...