Long Interspersed Nuclear Element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

They observe how the mobile DNA LINE-1 copies its sequence in human cells, revealing the precise mechanism of the ORF2p gene.

US researchers create microscopic DNA “flowers” that mimic life, folding and unfolding to adapt and deliver medicine.

Polyethyleneimines (PEIs) are extensively researched as non-viral vectors for gene and medication delivery because of their ...

MSK researchers are shedding new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that can cause DNA replication to stall. The structures are a potential therapeutic target in cancer. Image ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have published an analysis that reveals new functions of the ...

Computer scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a digital tool capable of searching through millions of published DNA ...

These burrowing animals have a biological mechanism that does the opposite of what it does in humans: it repairs DNA instead ...