A groundbreaking study has revealed that your mom and dad’s DNA don’t just pass on telomere length, they actively reshape it ...

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent stem cells that can produce all cell types of an organism. ES cells proliferate rapidly and have been thought to experience high levels of intrinsic ...

The discovery centers on the unique strands of DNA contained within our mitochondria, the power stations of our cells. By ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the ...

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A research team led by scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) has introduced a new way to fine-tune genetic material. Their study, published in Nature ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new advances in basic and biomedical ...

Research led by the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging in Cologne reports that misincorporation of ribonucleotides ...

Researchers say the catalog has already led to the identification of genetic mechanisms involved in kidney cancer and will ...

REPAIRome specifically addresses the repair of one of the most serious types of DNA damage, DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs).