Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship—but ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

New research suggests DNA may not need activation, challenging a long-held idea about how life began and reshaping ...

For years, two siblings with the distinctive facial features of Treacher Collins syndrome had no genetic explanation for ...

New spatial transcriptomics approach combined with machine learning maps gene expression across whole mouse body sections, capturing organs, tissues, and most cell types, and enabling system-wide ...

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Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...

Before a cell can divide, it has to precisely duplicate its entire genetic information. However, the DNA in the cell exists as part of a DNA-protein complex known as chromatin. For this purpose, the ...

Becoming a biohacker isn't as easy as it sounds. As exciting as it is to think about taking charge of your own health, ...

The federal government's sweeping power to force people under arrest to give a DNA sample is facing new scrutiny after multiple immigration enforcement protesters reported being swabbed after being ...