One of the key challenges of the modern genomics era is studying the thousands of genes in a single human cell at scale. To ...

Every day, billions of cells in your body divide, helping to replace old and injured cells with new ones. And each time this ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is known to cause DNA damage, and while that damage may accumulate and eventually lead to diseases ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

For the first time, scientists have witnessed the very moment DNA begins to unravel, revealing a necessary molecular event for DNA to be the molecule that codes all life.

New work from UC Davis and the University of Utah shows how the 3D structure of DNA inside a germ cell commits it to develop into a sperm cell. The discovery could improve understanding of fertility ...

Two new landmark studies show how a seeming tangle of DNA is actually organized into a structure that coordinates thousands of genes to form a sperm cell. The work, published March 3 as two papers ...

A new study has been published in Nature Communications, presenting the first comprehensive atlas of allele-specific DNA ...

Pancreatic cancer’s deadly resilience may be tied to extrachromosomal DNA, which allows tumor cells to rapidly adapt to ...

Bacteriophages, the most abundant life form on Earth, infect bacterial cells and influence the structure of the microbial ...