Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

A Northwestern team transformed a common chemotherapy drug into a powerful, targeted cancer therapy using spherical nucleic ...

Scientists at NUS have found that DNA’s phosphate groups can guide chemical reactions like molecular “hands.” Chemists at the (NUS) have discovered an unexpected way to use deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) ...

Illumina Inc. said the Chinese government has lifted a ban on the company selling its DNA sequencing machines inside the country.

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.

Traces of plague bacteria were found in a medieval skeleton from St Giles' Cathedral after new scientific analysis.

Researchers have created a detailed map of chemical modifications to DNA that occur in the human brain from the earliest ...

Hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, and research institutions are rapidly adopting PCR and sequencing technologies to enhance ...

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 ...

Researchers at UW’s School of Medicine and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona may have found an additional explanation as to why men and smokers are more likely to develop bladder ...