Bowhead whales, living over two centuries, defy cancer risks due to exceptional DNA repair, not more tumor suppressors.

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

Scientists discover a byproduct of sucralose that can damage DNA, raising new questions about the safety of artificial sweeteners.

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

Researchers have discovered giant DNA structures in oral bacteria, and data hint they could influence the function of your immune system.

Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

Those silver strands could be an outward sign of the body’s own intricate defences against cancer, a recent study in mice has ...

Life X DNA, a pioneering Australasian biotechnology company, has announced the global expansion of its precision genomics ...

People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their ...

Scientists have solved an important mystery related to human DNA (DNA), which may enable them to make modifications that ...

Scientists from Oxford have discovered a method to observe DNA function inside living cells. The dramatic breakthrough has the potential to enable the identification of alterations that can lead to ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that ... Feinberg School of Medicine New research ...