You likely know that you get half of your DNA from your mother and the other half from your father. It is this type of basic ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

A synthetic cell that can be activated by a magnetic field to release a medicine while deep in the body has been created by ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

But in the past few years scientists have been finding something surprising—so-called cancer-driver mutations are also common ...

Unexpected slowdowns or spikes in this signal were often interpreted as knots in DNA. But now, a new study published Aug. 12 ...