A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by hallucinations, false beliefs about oneself or the world (i.e., delusions), and other disruptions in thought, emotion and ...

Sunlight is vital for human health as it helps the body produce essential nutrients, such as vitamin D. However, too much sun ...

A U.S. biological research institute has developed a new genetic modification technique that promises a wide range of organism mutations while being safer than the ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right ...

Nucleome Therapeutics ('Nucleome' or 'the Company'), an immunology company tackling the root causes of disease through a revolutionary new approach to solving human genetics, is delighted that its ...

Long dismissed as evolutionary leftovers, segments of DNA once labeled “junk” may now offer a novel way to kill off deadly blood cancers. Scientists have discovered that these silent sequences, when ...

ECEs are pieces of DNA that are separate from an organism's main genome. In humans, our mitochondrial DNA — stored in the powerhouses of our cells — is an ECE. In bacteria, a commonly known small ECE ...