Organelles spit out DNA contaminated with damaging components, leading to the activation of inflammatory enzymes, mouse ...

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

"These results bring us closer to unraveling the mechanisms." Scientists discover concerning changes in lizards: 'We are ...

A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

Previously unmapped sections of the genome explain how cells sense their mechanical environment and could open new paths for ...

Small plastic or metal bits at the end of shoelaces, known as aglets, prevent laces from unraveling and protect them from ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

David Godler is the group leader of the diagnosis and development laboratory at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute ...

These chains come in a wide range of lengths. In humans a typical protein is about 400 amino acids long; some are a lot longer. Molecules of RNA, one of the two nucleic acids, can reach up to 100,000 ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...