Scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research and collaborating institutions have developed a ...

DNA phosphorothioate modification is a distinctive epigenetic alteration in which a non‐bridging oxygen atom within the DNA sugar-phosphate backbone is replaced by ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there are things beyond the DNA sequence,” says Xiaoqi Feng, a plant geneticist at ...

o A sustainable method of controlling mosquitoes, carriers of the malaria parasite may have been developed by a non-executive director of bio-tech company Oxitec, Luke Alphey. According to ...

Scientists are uncovering the secrets of a fast-acting molecular messaging network that strongly influences how people and all organisms adjust and react to the world around them.

One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function are ...

Using cells from a donor egg doesn’t create three ‘parents’. And while DNA is important, it’s not the defining feature of ...

We’ve long known the short-term effects of trauma — headaches, changes in appetite or sleep, fear, anxiety and concentration troubles are just a few. A new study suggests that severe trauma, like that ...

Genetic testing company 23andMe never hit on a sustainable business model and went bankrupt. Now, it's being sold to a non-profit launched by the co-founder, delaying addressing data privacy concerns.

Cancer’s genetic fingerprints may lurk in people’s blood long before they find out about the disease. It’s possible to spot tumor DNA more than three years before a person is diagnosed with cancer, ...