Hostile takeover New imaging tools reveal how herpesvirus sets up shop in an infected cell. The microscopy technique, called STORM-PAINT, involves tagging DNA molecules with fluorescent probes.

Like AI, cells change and learn from experience, while unlike computer chips they arrive naturally preprogrammed ...

A world where DNA can be rewritten to fix deadly diseases has moved a step closer after scientists announced they had genetically-edited the cells of a human for the first time.

Over billions of years, complex molecules like DNA, RNA and proteins formed in this setting before, ultimately, the first cells emerged. To date, however, nobody has been able to explain exactly ...

Cancer cells mount an instant, energy‑rich response to being physically squeezed, according to a study published in the ...

Rakovina Therapeutics preventing cancer cells from making DNA repairs they need to survive By Anna Sharratt • Postmedia Content Works Published Feb 21, 2022 Last updated Feb 21, 2022 ...

Researchers have discovered a secret super power that cancer cells exhibit while squeezing themselves through our bodies. The ...

Britain has become home to the first major investment project looking to write human DNA completely from scratch, attracting both great excitement and grave concern from the scientific community ...

As cells divide, they must accurately split their DNA between the two daughter cells or risk having an uneven number of chromosomes that can lead to developmental disorders and cancer. A new ...

Eight children in the UK are the first to share DNA from three different parents. The babies were conceived via IVF, using ...

If DNA bridges persist between chromosomes during cell division, chromosomes are abnormally segregated, leading to genetic instability and cancer. Researchers at UNIST and IBS have experimentally ...

Eight healthy babies were born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing devastating rare diseases to their children, ...