Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

OpenSNP, an open-source genetic database, is shutting down on April 30, deleting all DNA data to protect users from ...

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves.

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For this, the cell must duplicate its DNA – its genome – and segregate it ...

To encourage scientists to speak up when people misuse science to serve political agendas, biology professor Mark Peifer of ...

All languages likely come from a single original one, and early people began spreading around the world 135,000 years ago.

The academic and author discusses what to expect from the singularity, the need for AI self-correcting mechanisms, and what ...