In an effort to foster progress in cancer research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing detailed and comprehensive data about the entire genetic content of a ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code - a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

Portfolios have building blocks that determine whether family capital survives market shocks, tax‑code changes and ...

In vivo base editing enables precise, single-nucleotide changes to DNA without double-strand breaks. A recent application in ...

Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, from Cambridge, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Khorana Prize in recognition ...

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

Our DNA is comprised of four bases — cytosine (C), thymine (T), guanine (G) and adenosine (A), arranged in a double-helix structure. (cr: Pakawadee Wongjinda / iStock) You may have seen it in the news ...

5-Ethynyl-2'-deoxycytidine triphosphate (EdCTP) was synthesized as a probe to be used in conjunction with fluorescent labeling to facilitate the analysis of the in vivo dynamics of DNA-centered ...