A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus, where DNA is coiled, is no larger than a ...

Researchers have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question.

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

DNA has two strands. Each strand is a sequence of four chemical bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). The strands are anti-parallel and complementary. ‘Anti-parallel ...

Scientists at the University of Toronto studying the hermaphroditic worm Caenorhabditis elegans found that amyloid-like ...

Scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic 'marks' in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells may keep at least a ...

Single-cell imaging and mass spectrometry data reveal adenosine in the DNA of mammalian cells can be methylated by METTL3 to form N6-methyladenosine in response to DNA damage.

DENVER (KDVR) — A man who was convicted of first-degree murder in 2012 had his conviction vacated, tied to the alleged misconduct of a forensic scientist who analyzed DNA samples for the ...

Almost six decades after a woman’s body was found on a cliff in northern California, DNA testing has solved the mystery of her identity. Dorothy Jean Williams’s body was discovered on 18 ...