DNA is the blueprint of the human body. However, tens of thousands of DNA lesions occur in our bodies every day. In ...

A new technology allows scientists to map, in single cells, the DNA binding sites of transcription factors and other ...

Researchers have found that the DNA spools inside human cells are far less tightly wound than textbooks have long suggested.

DNA sits in sunlight every day, absorbing ultraviolet radiation that can set off the kind of chemical changes linked to ...

One of the most pressing quests for molecular biologists is to understand the functioning of centromeres, the regions of DNA that hold together the two branches of chromosomes and that play a key role ...

Scientists discover why some DNA-doubled cells don't die: Study ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently developed CRISPR-based genetic technique in fruit ...

DNA Repair Pathways in Clinical Practice: Lessons From Pediatric Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that little-studied DNA structures play a central role in organizing the human genome and controlling gene activity, according to a new study published ...

Techniques for analyzing DNA have advanced, enabling scientists to better understand disease outbreaks throughout history.

Researchers in the lab of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Xing Wang discovered the influential role of structural chirality, or “handedness”, of a DNA nanostructure to dictate cancer cell ...