A recent study indicates that genetic variants associated with higher educational attainment are also linked to lower levels ...

Learn how researchers at St. Jude, led by Hai Dao, PhD, discovered the mechanisms behind PARP1-mediated DNA repair.

Human genomic DNA is wrapped around core histone proteins to form nucleosomes, the fundamental units of chromatin. During ...

For decades, scientists have been able to look at individual moments in the development of an embryo: a snapshot of a ...

So long, white marble shower. Designers are going big on bathrooms with serious Milanese swagger, including moody stone in green or oxblood, walnut paneling, and Art Deco fixtures channeling iconic ar ...

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, deepens ...

Scientists have directly observed how two negatively charged DNA molecules can pair up despite normally repelling each other. Positively charged metal ions appear to bridge the gap, helping matching ...

During the early phases of oncogenic clonal expansion, precancerous cells experience replication stress that threatens both genomic integrity and viability. How replication stress tolerance (RST) ...

Opening a Bible that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2011 discovered a reddish-blond hair pressed between the pages. That hair, ...

Gene by Gene will provide whole-genome sequencing for Children’s Mercy’s program, targeting nearly 100,000 pediatric genomes.

Called Cas12a2, the CRISPR system had some distinctive properties. Rather than editing cells’ DNA when prompted by a guide RNA, as CRISPR-Cas9 does, Cas12a2 indiscriminately shreds it, ultimately ...

Late last month, Anthropic claimed it had discovered a curious stretch of DNA in a virus called a bacteriophage that repeats ...