Explore the ethical, social, and philosophical dilemmas of human cloning. Understand the implications of reproductive and therapeutic cloning, identity, consent, and the moral questions of copying ...

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

New research suggests DNA may not need activation, challenging a long-held idea about how life began and reshaping ...

Tiny organisms on the ground – bacteria and fungi – have a “superpower” that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and pull down the rain, according to a recent study. To understand how a ...

The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

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

DNA inside the nucleus is not packed as a rigid regular fiber—linker histone H1 dynamically binds and loosely "glues" ...

A mitochondrial enzyme, Ak4, strengthens immune defense by promoting mitochondrial DNA synthesis and enhancing macrophage ...

A single protein bolted to the inner membrane of a bacterial cell can shred a virus’s DNA before that genetic material ever ...

Every cell in your body faces the same engineering puzzle: how to cram roughly two meters of DNA into a nucleus just a few ...