A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle ...

Thanks to genetic science, gene editing, and techniques like cloning, it’s now possible to move DNA through time, studying ...

Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

"I clicked on this expecting it to be another person worried about unexpected pitty. This is an actual rough one," one user ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

Estrogen is known as an important hormone, and it can control many functions by regulating the activity of hundreds of genes.

Strict new customs laws have come into effect in the US, meaning government officials can collect tourists' DNA in certain cases. The new biometric data collection policy was actioned on 26 December, ...

The islands of Bermuda are a scientific mystery. Not because of the notorious Bermuda Triangle nearby, but because they're perched atop a swollen mass of Earth's crust that technically shouldn't be ...