The same DNA tests used to catch criminals are now being used to prevent doctors from operating on the wrong patients. Indianapolis-based Strand Analytical Laboratories, which was started a decade ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

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

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

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 ...

A toddler from the U.K. is believed to be the only person in the world to be diagnosed with an extra strand of DNA – a condition so rare, doctors don’t even have a name for it ...

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

Many use DNA kits, like Ancestry or 23andMe, and discover new relatives. But often they find long-lost family that won't share their medical history.

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 ...