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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Barbara Franke: Understanding the biological pathways from genes to altered behaviour in neurodevelopmental conditions like ...

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

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

In a 2014 Nature paper, Ralston described this awkward process — trogocytosis, or “cell nibbling.” It was a revelation at the ...