Research reveals that DNA mutations may influence epigenetic clocks, raising new questions about the aging process.

A team of Chinese scientists has used targeted gene editing to develop rice that produces coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a vital ...

The CRISPR-Cas9 system offers groundbreaking genome editing capabilities, yet off-target cleavage raises concerns about ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

A groundbreaking study has uncovered how specific genetic mutations influence cancer treatment outcomes -- insights that could help doctors tailor treatments more effectively. The largest study of its ...

The lab of The Wistar Institute's Jessie Villanueva, Ph.D., has identified a new strategy for attacking treatment-resistant ...

How cells respond to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage is not fully understood. This study uncovers a mechanism of mtDNA clearance following damage, driven by the exonuclease activity of the mtDNA ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) — Scientists have characterized the role of thousands of mutations in the BRCA2 cancer gene, findings that may help reassure worried patients about their cancer risk or guide doctors ...

A screen of a comprehensive library of rubisco variants (each with a different single-amino-acid mutation), expressed ... a single amino-acid substitution can thus have consequences on an ...

Conventionally, genetic engineering has relied on natural or artificial mutations. In recent years, genome editing technology has been grabbing attention. Genome editing technology can target and ...

All human genetic diversity can be traced to recombination and de novo mutations, DNA sequence present in the child but not in the parents. The map shows that mutations are elevated near regions of ...

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...