What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the role of ...

Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

Previous researches on DNA included topics of bases, base-pairing, hydrogen bonds, structure, base sequence, dynamics, ...

New research from the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is tackling a complex packing problem. Thanks to the development of a powerful new computational tool introduced in a study published earlier ...

But a new study suggests that these parallels are a bit of an accident, and digits come by re-deploying a genetic network that controls a completely different process: the formation of the cloaca, a ...

This study reports a novel immune evasion strategy evolved by dengue virus (DENV) to dampen T-cell mediated viral clearance.

Dementia has become one of the world’s most pressing health challenges. Millions of people live with the condition, and the ...

Adenine was first discovered in 1885 by the German physiologist Albrecht Kossel. He isolated adenine from the pancreas of oxen and named it "adenine" derived from the Greek word "aden," meaning gland.