In a new study published in the journal Cell, a team from Gladstone Institutes has unearthed new findings about what happens ...

A global team has made a significant advance in understanding how bacterial plasmids contribute to antibiotic resistance.

A new team working to identify the unknown dead says the key to their success will be getting relatives of men who vanished between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s to provide samples of their own DNA.

Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was ...

Researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made an exciting discovery about how human cells protect DNA during ...

The surprising paradigm shift could lead to much more protective sunscreens and effective skin treatments.

In a publication in the journal Cell, researchers led by François Fuks, the Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, ULB Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Center and Jules Bordet Institute, H.U.B.

The researchers have discovered that they form a complementary regulation system, in which DNA epigenetics organizes the available genes and RNA epigenetics dynamically adjusts their use.

Scientists have discovered that the protein machines that shape our DNA can switch direction. Until now, researchers believed that these so-called SMC motors that make loops into DNA could move in one ...