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With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.

Whole-genome sequencing reads every DNA base. This shifts medicine from diagnosing disease based on symptoms to molecular ...

Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

NAD+ is also central to DNA repair, balancing your circadian rhythm and regulating your metabolism, says Dr. Kefah Al Ramahi, ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a ...

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One small compartment inside the nucleus has come into focus with regards to aging: the nucleolus. Its main job is simple and ...