In an effort to foster progress in cancer research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing detailed and comprehensive data about the entire genetic content of a ...

As humanity sets its sights on long-duration missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond, keeping astronauts healthy will be as ...

On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their ...

Researchers have begun working on a new, controversial project to produce human DNA from scratch. It is believed to be the first of its kind effort which, if successful, could lead to new treatments ...

Scientists are now exploring a new way to track the passage of time inside your cells—by measuring how unpredictable certain patterns in your DNA become as you grow older. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

Two graduate students were recognized at the Arkansas Association for Food Protection Conference for their poster presentations. The students conducted the research through the Center of Excellence ...

DNA has been used for years to store data, but encoding information into the molecule is painstaking work. Now, researchers have drastically sped it up by mimicking a natural biological process ...

Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. The intact cheese was found with mummified remains in China.

DNA synthesis is vital to several processes in biopharmaceutical innovation, including the development of gene therapies, CRISPR gene editing, antisense oligonucleotides and RNA therapies. The ...

In a study published in the journal Science, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Université de Strasbourg, Université Paris Cité and collaborating institutions reveal how DNA gyrase ...

“DNA gyrase, now surrounded by a tightly supercoiled loop, will cut one DNA helix in the loop, pass the other DNA helix through the cut in the other, and reseal the break, which relaxes the ...