A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don’t undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

Discovery reshapes understanding of how tumor cells repair broken DNA, pointing toward more precise cancer therapies.

The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

Tiny organisms on the ground—bacteria and fungi—have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and pull ...

As climate change outpaces the ability of ecosystems to adapt, scientists are turning to conservation genomics to guide ...

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template called "doodling," opening new paths for ...

DNA inside the nucleus is not packed as a rigid regular fiber—linker histone H1 dynamically binds and loosely "glues" ...

Not all parts of our genetic code are equal, even when they appear to say the same thing. Scientists have discovered that ...