Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

A young mum and her daughter can finally return home after DNA results confirmed their identities. Kenyans react warmly to ...

Broadly neutralizing antibodies, or bnAbs, are a long‑standing goal of HIV vaccine research because they can disable many strains of the virus at once.

Earlier this week, we looked at how certain patterns in the market tend to repeat – not just over months, but often around ...

Capcom's latest Resident Evil is shaping up to be a true scare-fest, tapping into the franchise's action and horror to make ...

Fixing gene defects with designer DNA is on the horizon after Google DeepMind launched a pioneering new AI tool. The ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

A new study shows that cancer damages its own DNA by pushing key genes to work too hard. Researchers found that the most ...

Scientists have identified a protein which repairs defective DNA strands by using undamaged ones as templates. The same protein in humans promotes cancers and shortens life expectancy. The mole rat ha ...