He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Researchers discovered a previously unknown function of RNA, potentially opening the door to new ways to treat cancer and ...

Using an inexpensive electrode coated with DNA, MIT researchers have designed disposable diagnostics that could be adapted to ...

Letter Published: 09 November 2000 Cell-cycle-regulated DNA double-strand breaks in somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes F. Nina Papavasiliou & David G. Schatz Nature 408, 216–221 (2000 ...

The process in addition renews the surrounding DNA and removes harmful modifications. “… this mechanism results in renewal of the non-G4 strand, which allows for erasing potentially mutagenic ...

The collapse of DNA replication forks leads to the formation of single-ended DNA double-strand breaks. One would have assumed that these breaks would be repaired as soon as possible.

New genetic research has traced the paternal line of Poland’s first royal dynasty, challenging long-held national traditions about the origins of the Piasts.

DNA and genealogy tools recently reunited Melissa Highsmith with her family after 51 years, showing how tech is changing outcomes for missing persons and murder cases.

Scientists studying ancient human remains uncovered in Colombia have found that the people they were researching have no known ancestors or modern descendants. In a study published May 30 in the ...

New DNA evidence unsettles a nation’s founding mythFor two centuries, scholars have sparred over the roots of the Piasts, Poland ’s first documented royal house, who reigned from the 10th to ...

A century later, scientists accelerated the search for proteins by working out how our bodies make them. Each protein is encoded by a gene in our DNA. To make a protein, our cells make a copy of ...

Billy Idol discovered he had an adult son named Brant several years ago. The story is covered in the new documentary 'Billy Idol Should Be Dead,' which premiered on June 10 at Tribeca Festival.