Spending time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) induced aging-like changes in a group of cells key for the health ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

Your body's blood-making stem cells, hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), are like factory managers who work best when calm and ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

Scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research and collaborating institutions have developed a ...

The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to a ...

Researchers have reconstructed transcription in human mitochondria in unprecedented detail, revealing potential drug targets ...

Researchers unveil append editing, a method that attaches chemical tags to DNA, expanding possibilities in medicine, agriculture, and biotechnology.

AI-guided design of 16 functional bacteriophage genomes offers a path for phage-based therapies against antibiotic-resistant infections.

When scientists want to trace how a species has changed over time — and predict its prospects for survival — they turn to DNA. But what if the genetic ...

A new blood-based HPV whole genome sequencing assay can detect circulating tumor HPV DNA more than 7 years before the ...