Early research shows that editing expanding trinucleotide repeats halts the lengthening process that causes neurological ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During ...

Science is for all of us and by all of us—it is humanity’s never-ending story, and it should be honored and protected.

Vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with aging, a large study shows. But ...

Researchers have developed a way to edit the genetic sequences at the root of Huntington's disease and Friedreich's ataxia. If longer than a certain threshold length, these sequences grow in length ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

The evolution of a single gene from the bubonic plague microbe allowed it to survive for centuries — and to this very day ...

Each time a cell divides, its telomeres grow shorter. When they become too short, the cell can no longer replicate. This ...