Two new studies from Johns Hopkins University are providing scientists with an unprecedented view of how human cells repair one of the most dangerous forms of genetic damage: a break that severs both ...

Understanding gene regulation may be key to interpreting human disease genetics. Genes are regulated in part by stretches of ...

Traditional gene editing rewrites DNA. But a new approach, called epigenome editing, aims to treat the molecular scars we ...

For billions of years, life on Earth has relied on a remarkably simple genetic language. DNA uses just four chemical letters — A, T, C and G — to store the instructions needed to build and maintain ...

Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the four letters used by all known life on Earth. Detailed ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has overturned decades of assumptions about Miracinonyx trumani, the extinct predator popularly known as the American ...

New research suggests that the genetics of personality are more relevant to human experience than previously thought. Specifically, genetic variants that predict personality were found to be ...

The extracellular milieu, including extracellular vesicles (EVs), plays a pivotal role in brain development. In this study, we sought to elucidate the pathogenesis of progressive myoclonus epilepsy ...

Few biological systems have been studied as exhaustively as the phage ΦX174, or phi X. Yet a new study shows that scientists still have loads to learn. Most of these mutations were detrimental to the ...

Clues emerging from DNA could unlock the mystery of human ancestors that are missing from the fossil record yet present in the genes of people living today. Scientists found evidence years ago that ...