New research sheds light on how electrons interact with the innate vibrations within DNA molecules, known as phonons, which ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

The DNA data of millions of people who used 23andMe's services won't be sold to a pharmaceutical company. A bankruptcy judge ...

In 1968 James Watson published The Double Helix, his highly personalized and controversial account of the events. It ...

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after ...

A University of Alberta research team has identified a DNA structure that activates the immune system in cancer cells that ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

Test, developed by University of Cambridge, looks at structure of tumour DNA and forecasts whether it will resist treatment ...

Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens ...

In 1962, American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. However, there were a host of actors who ...