In a leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful ...

New research published in Nature Communications into hidden mutations in mitochondrial DNA has uncovered how high mutational ...

Early research shows that editing expanding trinucleotide repeats halts the lengthening process that causes neurological ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

In a major leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful new artificial ...

Single-cell analysis of over 120,000 cells reveals how mitochondrial DNA mutations accumulate with age and may affect ageing and neurodegeneration.New ...

David Liu and Richard Merkin of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Columbia professor Sam Sternberg, have ...

“You share 50 percent of your DNA with each of your parents. But with bananas, we share about 50 percent of our genes,” Mike ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs.

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

From bodily fluids to skeletal remains, advances in DNA analysis and the study of insects and microbes aid forensic ...