Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a leading cause of heart failure, is twice as common in Black individuals as in white individuals. This excess risk is not fully explained by known risk factors such as ...

The RAD52-DNA complex is a dynamic guardian of genomic stability. When this balance falters, cells may either self-destruct or, worse, turn cancerous.

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The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs to live. But as far as how ribosomes themselves were formed, tantalizingly ...

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

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Oram Award-winning electronic artist Helen Anahita Wilson tells us how she generated the music for her new album from ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

Using a new time-resolved Mendelian randomization approach in over 360,000 UK Biobank participants, Karlsson et al. revealed ...