Scientists have shown that biology can read an eight-letter DNA alphabet, opening new possibilities for synthetic life and ...

What is the meaning of my life?'Have you ever worried about this at least once? Well, from a scientific perspective, the ...

DNA is a double helix.”This is a fact so famous that it now appears in middle and high school textbooks. However, when you learn the details of how this shape was discovered, you realize it is not a ...

The researchers also found that DNA molecules do not all pair with the same strength. Some DNA sequences form much stronger ...

A new study finds that when p53, one of the most important cancer-protecting genes, stops working, cells produce too much RNA ...

In a new Science study, scientists read the family tree buried inside modern genomes and turned up “ghost ancestors” in every population on Earth that no fossil records can account for. But did our ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its DNA with extraordinary precision. But this process is constantly challenged by DNA damage. Among the most dangerous lesions are DNA interstrand crosslinks ...

Balancing replication fork progression and origin usage is essential to maintain genome stability, but measuring replication fork progression rates and origin usage throughout the genome has been ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would later reshape biology and our understanding of life itself. A ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...

Human history is rife with contentions about the purity (and superiority) of the bloodlines of one group over another and claims over ancestral homelands. More than a decade of work on ancient human ...