When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in 2020, the mRNA vaccines came to the rescue of many people—but in the ...

Scientists have created an artificial RNA system that can copy itself using simple building blocks and temperature changes.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

In 1968 James Watson published The Double Helix, his highly personalized and controversial account of the events. It ...

An experimental rationalization of the structure type encountered in DNA and RNA by systematically investigating the chemical and physical properties of alternative nucleic acids has identified ...

Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model that ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Google DeepMind in London could help scientists to make sense of this ...

It follows a previous report showing that the Werner syndrome protein WRN and its interacting protein WRNIP1 are indispensable for translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) by Y-family DNA polymerases (Pols).

With most of the surviving creatures isolated in tropical zones, the plot follows a breakthrough involving three genetically unique dinosaurs whose DNA might be the key to a world-changing cure. With ...