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

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

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

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?

Scientists have long hypothesised the importance of DNA loops in building and maintaining chromosomal structure ... driven loops might be sufficient to explain the vast differences that we ...

The government has provided few specifics about how it arrived at the $9 billion sum, except to say that it is undertaking a ...

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.