A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...

Broken String Biosciences today announced that its INDUCE-seq™ DNA break-mapping technology had been used in a peer-reviewed research paper to characterize off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9 gene ...

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that strand separation - the essential process a "resting" double helix ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

A new inherited DNA repair deficiency syndrome called DIAL syndrome, which increases blood cancer risk and chemo toxicity has ...

More information: Enrique Gonzalez-Duran et al, Suppression of plastid-to-nucleus gene transfer by DNA double-strand break repair, Nature Plants (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02005-w Provided by ...

Within three days of Beethoven’s death, not a single strand of hair was left on his head. Ever since, a cottage industry has aimed to understand Beethoven’s illnesses and the cause of his death.

More information: Wei Wu et al, VGLL3 modulates chemosensitivity through promoting DNA double-strand break repair, Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr2643 Journal information: Science ...

Researchers discovered a previously unknown function of RNA, potentially opening the door to new ways to treat cancer and ...

Molecular Crowding Suppresses Mechanical Stress-Driven DNA Strand Separation. Biophysical Journal, 2025; DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2025 ... It is not intended to provide medical or other professional ...

Doctors check poop for DNA as part of the screening process for colorectal cancers. Read about DNA, what to expect from the test, the results, and more.