DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. It is the fundamental blueprint of life, containing genetic instructions for traits and ...

The human repairome, REPAIRome, will allow researchers around the world to rapidly check out how each of the 20,000 human genes affects DNA repair. Created by researchers at the Spanish National ...

What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades.

Folate, or vitamin B9, is particularly important during times of rapid growth, such as pregnancy and adolescence. Eating ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

An innovative use of skin cells could provide a route for same-sex couples or women with fertility problems to have children ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new advances in basic and biomedical research published in the journal Science by the Spanish National Cancer Research ...

Everywhere you go, you carry a population of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract that outnumber the human cells making up ...

Sex cells made from scratch could revolutionize human reproduction. But researchers are struggling to translate promising ...

Travis Decker, the man believed to have suffocated and abandoned his three young daughters at a campsite in the Washington state wilderness, is dead, Chelan County authorities said Thursday. Positive ...