From the first unzip of the double helix to the final joining of DNA fragments, replication is a carefully coordinated process. Understanding it helps explain how life preserves its genetic code with ...

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be ...

Researchers discover a hidden virus in gut bacteria that could explain colon cancer and help detect it earlier ...

Do you watch The Pitt? It’s a great show—except when it tries a little too hard to show things better left unseen. One of the worst moments comes in episode 8, where a woman arrives covered in ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified 21 organic molecules in a Gale Crater rock sample, the largest set ever detected on Mars. Seven of these compounds, including a nitrogen heterocycle linked to DNA ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new imaging method, known as RF-SIRF, that ...

Cell division is one of the most fundamental and complex processes underpinning life. In human cells, thousands of molecules ...

Every cell in the human body squeezes over six feet of DNA into a minuscule speck invisible to the naked eye—like compressing ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...