The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

Small plastic or metal bits at the end of shoelaces, known as aglets, prevent laces from unraveling and protect them from ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer. This allows bacteria to rapidly evolve new traits, such as antibiotic ...

A latest research, published in Nature Communications, revealed that our immune systems and oral health may benefit from giant DNA loops carried by oral bacteria, which may lower our risk of ...

Much the way the caps on the ends of a shoelace prevent it from fraying, telomeres - regions of repetitive DNA sequences and a protein structure - protect the tips of chromosomes from damage. Every ...

Leonardo Gomes de Lima, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the Gerton Lab, led the research. The findings show how these chromosome fusions form, why they remain stable, and how repetitive DNA, once ...