DNA structures captured in ‘exquisite detail’ using new technique

Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

Quickcheck: Do humans share 60% of our DNA with bananas?

Humans and bananas do share DNA, but not 70% as commonly claimed. Every living thing has a built-in instruction manual called ...

KATMAP: A new way to understand and predict gene splicing

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...
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Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, Who Discovered Molecular ‘Scissors’ to Cut DNA, Dies at 94

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

Scientists discover ALIX protein can prevent cell death during inflammatory response

When pathogens enter our cells as part of an infection, our body will trigger a programmed cell death known as "pyroptosis" ...