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

Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood ...

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...

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

It's long been assumed that as cells divide in the human body, the genome is faithfully replicated in the resulting daughter cells. While errors are known to arise, there is machinery in the cell that ...

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 ...