One of the key challenges of the modern genomics era is studying the thousands of genes in a single human cell at scale. To ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

When Maria Branyas Morera died in August 2024 at the age of 117, she left behind more than just a legacy as the world’s ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

Scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed "molecular movie" showing DNA being unzipped at ...

The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely ...

Our cells harbor a DNA detector termed cGAS to inform the immune system of viral and bacterial infections, cell death, as ...

POLG-related diseases disrupt the function of the mitochondria, or "powerhouses" of the cell — starving them of energy.

The first complete DNA methylation atlas of 39 human cell types reveals which genes can talk or are silenced, depending on whether their sequence is linked to methyl group epigenetic modification that ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...