Enhancers are pieces of DNA that act like switches, regulating when genes are turned on and off and how strongly they are ...

Our DNA is made of millions of combinations of the genomes that create the human body. Even the smallest changes in these sequences, or in how they act, can change the functioning of the whole body ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's remark during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that a recent genomic sequencing test revealed he has Indian ancestry has ignited curiosity about ...

Miami scientists at the University of Miami say mitochondrial DNA damage does not simply fade away inside the brain cells hit ...

Scientists have exploited a peculiar CRISPR enzyme so that it fights cancer by shredding the DNA in cancer cells, causing ...

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new way to add large pieces of ...

A parasite carried by billions of people worldwide often causes harmful infections during pregnancy and in immunocompromised ...

A tiny bubble of lipids, enzymes and DNA has done something biologists have chased for years: it carried out a full cycle of life-like behavior without starting from a living cell. The system, called ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle of a living cell in four dimensions, capturing how the genetically minimal ...

A video of SpudCell - a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components - containing both a genome and the metabolic machinery to read it. The red membrane is stained with lipid ...

HIV treatment has progressed significantly since the 1980s. ART enables viral suppression and prevents transmission, but HIV ...