Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Congress members need to stop blaming each other and start building strong relationships across the aisle and working on ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

In 1968 James Watson published The Double Helix, his highly personalized and controversial account of the events. It ...

It follows a previous report showing that the Werner syndrome protein WRN and its interacting protein WRNIP1 are indispensable for translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) by Y-family DNA polymerases (Pols).

Goodyear blimp took to the skies, a modern blimp flew over the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Here's why it's still an important symbol for Goodyear.

Genomic research holds incredible promise for improving human health, but one major challenge has slowed its progress: ...

Skoltech researchers have enlisted generative artificial intelligence to complete the missing data on the distances between pairs of genes in DNA. This enables figuring out the 3D architecture of ...

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how.

Correcting the code DNA is made up of four chemical "letters" -- the nucleotide bases A, G, T and C. Mutations in this sequence cause thousands of human diseases, yet until recently, gene editing ...