Two new landmark studies show how a seeming tangle of DNA is actually organized into a structure that coordinates thousands ...

Every day, billions of cells in your body divide, helping to replace old and injured cells with new ones. And each time this ...

Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between generations of living things. Present in nearly every living cell, DNA molecules are among the largest molecules known to ...

The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell. After that, the next step in CRISPR gene editing is usually to alter that piece of DNA. However ...

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the information-carrying molecule found in all living organisms. In most animal, plant and fungal cells DNA is stored in the nucleus coiled up in thread-like ...

DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers have long struggled to understand how cancer cells hijack one of these ...