Shixin Liu is pioneering new ways of studying the tiny proteins that copy and read DNA in living cells. (Credit: Roshni ...

Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular ...

This study characterizes several novel activities of SARS-CoV-2 helicase nsp13, providing valuable insights into potentially new functions of this essential RNA-processing enzyme in the virus life ...

A preprint study analyzing genetic material recovered from the Shroud of Turin suggests that some human mitochondrial DNA ...

Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template called "doodling," opening new paths for ...

Scientists have created a programmable drug system that can zero in on cancer cells with unprecedented accuracy. Built from synthetic DNA, it only activates when it detects a precise combination of ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

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Short tandem repeat profiling of bathwater showed that DNA quantity jumps sharply after a person is immersed in the water for ...