DNA mutations underlie many diseases, including cancer. Some sources of cancer-associated DNA mutations are well-known, like exposure to UV light and tobacco smoking. However, many remain a mystery.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota created the cell from chemical compounds and were shocked by how it behaved.

QAIAx 4E HRR promises 500-year robot identity preservation for up to $1 million - but no verified prototype exists to back ...

When General Motors executive Alfred Sloan, Jr., and engineer Charles Kettering announced the formation of the Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) in 1945, they hoped to translate the organizational ...

A newly mapped step in DNA replication suggests that strand separation begins at a precise junction between two helicase ...

Fibers taken from the Shroud of Turin nearly five decades ago still contain a complex record of biological material accumulated over centuries. In research published in Scientific Reports, scientists ...

Deep learning approaches have transformed how scientists predict the activity and function of DNA sequences in the genome. A ...

Malaria parasites proliferate in an unusual way. Rather than dividing into two daughter cells like human cells, they first amplify their genetic material tenfold, hundredfold or even thousandfold ...

The NIH 4D Nucleome consortium, of which this study is a part, aims to extend this kind of mapping into the fourth dimension: ...

Pioneering researchers shared how patient-derived brain organoids are being used to study autism. The models have uncovered ...