A common type of error-correcting mechanism in biology is called kinetic proofreading. For example, if errors turn up when cells are making new DNA, enzymes can cut out incorrect nucleotides. They can ...

Researchers at Vilnius University (Lithuania) have uncovered how the bacterial protein Cas9, better known as the CRISPR-Cas ...

The majority of DNA in one’s body does not encode for any protein. In a Feb. 25 lecture, Rachel Mueller, Colorado State University biology professor, addressed questions surrounding junk DNA, ...

The convicted sex offender and the late Cold Spring Harbor Lab director maintained a relationship for years — even up until ...

A protein that is a key modulator of fat, glucose and cholesterol levels in the body usually works in tandem with another ...

For decades, scientists believed a fertilized egg’s DNA began as a shapeless mass, only organizing itself once the embryo switched on its genes. But new research reveals that the genome is already ...

Structural nanomedicine — what helped give us the COVID vaccine — may now be the key to a potent blood cancer treatment that’s had remarkable early results.

Researchers in Japan have identified a striking new way immune cells strip DNA out of dying neighbors, a process they call ...

A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

The University of Chicago will award honorary degrees to three distinguished scholars on June 6 during its Convocation ...

Hopkins researchers identify how smoking, a well-known risk factor for eye disease and vision loss, increases susceptibility to age-related eye disease ...

Biomolecular condensates were long believed to be simple liquid blobs inside cells. Researchers have now uncovered that some are actually supported by fine protein filaments forming an internal ...