Aging, neurological diseases and our bodies' stress response are all linked to the tiny power plants inside each cell known ...

Traditional storage media like silicon chips and magnetic tapes are hitting their capacity limits. DNA offers a promising ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

For decades, scientists thought the noncoding parts of DNA were useless leftovers. Today, that view has completely changed. A pair of groundbreaking studies published in Cell00917-1) show how much ...

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, scientists created a new way to tell someone’s age using just a bit of DNA. This ...

Researchers developed TESLA-seq, a CRISPR-based method to map DNA regions that regulate genes. By scanning thousands of ...

Researchers including those at the University of Tokyo have made a surprising discovery hiding in people's mouths: Inocles, ...