Homicide detectives used a school's surveillance cameras and DNA evidence to identify a suspect in a shooting that left a ...

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

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Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as ...

Bacteria use a short RNA guide to detect viruses and activate a self-destruct mechanism that protects the wider microbial ...

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

Scientists discovered that certain cancer cells use a low-level activation of a DNA-dismantling enzyme—normally seen in cell death—to survive treatment. Instead of dying, these “persister cells” ...

Glioblastoma is one of the most dangerous brain cancers in the world. It spreads quickly and is almost always fatal. Traditional treatments often fail because it’s very hard to get powerful drugs into ...