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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.