By restructuring a common chemotherapy drug, scientists increased its potency by 20,000 times. In a significant step forward ...

At times, aging doesn’t become evident in wrinkles or in gray hair, it occurs deep inside your body, in cells that have ...

Bowhead whales can live over 200 years thanks to a protein that helps their cells repair DNA damage efficiently.

Dandruff shampoos containing coal tar, long a popular remedy, are now under scrutiny. While effective for flaking and itching ...

The truth is that around 80% of cancers are “sporadic”, meaning they are not caused by hereditary mutations but by external factors that damage DNA over time. This includes what we eat and breathe, as ...

While molds are the primary concern for plant and dairy spoilage, bacteria are the main agents of meat decomposition.

Scientists discover a byproduct of sucralose that can damage DNA, raising new questions about the safety of artificial ...

Researchers from UNIGE and Marburg show that D-cysteine, the "mirror" form of cysteine, selectively targets certain cancer ...

A humble kitchen spice could pack a powerful antiviral punch. Researchers have found that compounds in cardamom seeds can ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

On the morning of March 26, 2013, approximately 60,000 liters (16,000 gallons) of an oil byproduct used to produce asphalt ...

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