(Alones Creative/iStock/Getty Images) One of the most iconic visual representations in biological science is the double helix ...

Inspired by long-lived animals — and human centenarians — researchers are hunting for ways to enhance DNA repair and extend ...

This breakthrough transforms the building of synthetic DNA from a chemical process to an electrical one. Here’s what you’ll ...

Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 100 babies born each year. One of the many causes for this disorder is having only one functional copy of the ...

The specific DNA repair pathway affected is predictive of the kinds of mutations, the tumor drug sensitivity, and the treatment outcome. The study of rare inherited DNA repair disorders, such as ...

DNA study challenges key assumption about Viking burials - People buried together in old Scandinavian graves were not always ...

For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms.