While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells’ in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that quietly slipped into our chromosomes and never left. By tracing this viral ...

New insights into a sophisticated process that protects sperm cells has revealed a mechanism, similar to an immune system, ...

Some people actually have more than one biological identity embedded in their bodies, a rare and often harmless biological ...