For almost 60 years, scientists have tried to understand why DNA doesn't replicate wildly and uncontrollably every time a ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

Physical forces from gravity, muscle contraction, and more have strong impacts on how the cells in our bodies behave. For ...

DNA's iconic double helix does more than "just" store genetic information. Under certain conditions, it can temporarily fold ...

Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held ...

Scientists have identified a mirror-image form of the amino acid cysteine that selectively slows the growth of certain ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, ...

Although DNA is tightly packed and protected within the cell nucleus, it is constantly threatened by damage from normal ...

While the central dogma of molecular biology outlines the linear flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to proteins (black lines), glycomics introduces a “3rd code of life”—glycans—that operates ...

Schizophrenia has long been one of medicine’s most puzzling conditions, with genetics offering tantalizing clues but an incomplete picture. A record-setting DNA study in people of African ancestry is ...