Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that temporarily disabling a protein complex that organizes DNA into loops ...

New research suggests DNA may not need activation, challenging a long-held idea about how life began and reshaping ...

Archaeologists have investigated genetic relationships between individuals buried in Neolithic chambered tombs in northern ...

Aging may not be inevitable—it may be reversible. Scientists now believe aging is caused by a loss of information in our cells, not damage to DNA itself. Experiments have shown that it’s possible to ...

A study in the Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines reports the first high-resolution structure of the major G-quadruplex in the TMPRSS2 promoter and shows how berberine binds and stabilizes it, ...

Scientists have identified a new RNA molecule that may play a key role in improving survival in cancer patients.

A key feature of this process is natural competence, the ability of bacteria to take up free DNA from their surroundings. V. cholerae becomes naturally competent when it grows on chitinous surfaces, a ...

Every cell in your body faces the same engineering puzzle: how to cram roughly two meters of DNA into a nucleus just a few ...

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...

The human genome is about two meters long, yet it fits inside a nucleus only ~10 micrometers in diameter. A research team led ...

DNA inside the nucleus is not packed as a rigid regular fiber-linker histone H1 dynamically binds and loosely "glues" ...