Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...

Interview with Kunal Agarwal’s founder and CEO of dope.security, featured in SecurityWeek's Hacker Conversations Series.

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

At times, aging doesn’t become evident in wrinkles or in gray hair, it occurs deep inside your body, in cells that have ceased to divide but are still alive. These “zombie cells,” or senescent cells ...

Instead, you gently scoop water from a nearby puddle and filter it, knowing that the frog has left behind enough DNA in its ...

Quantabio has launched the sparQ™ Lysis Kit, designed to isolate high-quality, double-stranded genomic DNA from dried blood spot (DBS) samples.

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Scientists using TwinsUK data and ultra‑precise DNA sequencing have uncovered rare DNA mutations in healthy tissue that could ...