The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy and noses are running. We feel ill and hope it is not the flu. The influenza virus continues to pose a threat to our health. It triggers seasonal ...

A common type of error-correcting mechanism in biology is called kinetic proofreading. For example, if errors turn up when cells are making new DNA, enzymes can cut out incorrect nucleotides. They can ...

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

Called “Lamarckian Inheritance,” the theory suggests that those experiences can even be passed down to future generations.

Background Concomitant metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is prevalent in patients with chronic ...

University of Missouri scientists build rewritable DNA hard drive using nanopore sensor for storing and editing digital data.

This week, we examine the threat of human papilloma virus — or HPV — to our bodies and the rationale for protecting our kids and ourselves from its potential to ...

Researchers found that LINE-1 elements not only insert into DNA but also cause major structural rearrangements early in tumor evolution, fueling genomic instability, cancer growth, and treatment ...

A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

Scientists discover QT45, a self-replicating RNA molecule, offering insights into the origins of life on Earth.

Genetics tools have advanced significantly in recent decades, and have allowed scientist to sequence all of the genetic ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to simply help load a factor necessary for the copying of DNA, actually plays a key role in ensuring fast and reliable replication—an insight ...