Every human cell packs roughly two meters of DNA into a nucleus only six micrometers wide. That ratio, confirmed by ...

UT Austin researchers folded DNA into a nanoscale Longhorn, demonstrating a breakthrough that could help deliver cancer drugs ...

Discovery may become a springboard for developing drugs with a potential effect on aging and longevity.

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, ...

My coworker was telling me about the baffling array of so-called “vitamin patches” they had encountered on a weekend trip to ...

Many repetitive regions of the genome have been considered "junk DNA" because the available technologies did not allow them ...

DNA is the blueprint of the human body. However, tens of thousands of DNA lesions occur in our bodies every day. In ...

End of Oak Street dinosaur science goes deeper than Jurassic Park: the new Warner Bros. trailer reveals a spacetime ...

Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal's maiden six-wicket for India as the hosts beat England by 75 runs in the third and final Twenty20 International ...

It's tricky to make an exact copy of yourself. Or at least it is for cells undergoing mitosis, where cells replicate everything inside of them, including their neatly packaged DNA, then split in half.

Scientists in Australia are using cutting-edge DNA techniques to help save one of the world’s rarest marsupials — the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo, with fewer than 150 left in the wild. By ...

Researchers have identified the remains of four members of a doomed 19th century expedition in the Arctic by matching DNA to the sailors’ living descendants — and solved a case of mistaken identity ...