"Pathogens are one of the strongest selective pressures." ...

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and ...

By Naina Rao For more than 160 years, the Himalayan pit viper was believed to be a single species, found across the Himalayas ...

One of the most pressing quests for molecular biologists is to understand the functioning of centromeres, the regions of DNA that hold together the two branches of chromosomes and that play a key role ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene normally considered a DNA-protecting "good guy" can become dangerous when cells make too much of it. The gene, EXO1, acts like molecular scissors that help ...

DNA Repair Pathways in Clinical Practice: Lessons From Pediatric Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation ...

Childhood trauma may do more than affect mental health. A new study reveals how early stress can speed up cellular ageing and ...

A new genealogical study shows how genetic analyses threading together DNA across centuries can save stories of historical ...

The familiar sting and inflammation of sunburn may be caused by RNA damage rather than DNA damage, according to new research ...

A new study from the HistoGenes project, of which Patrick Geary, professor emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, is co-PI, is helping scholars frame a better picture of the early medieval ...