The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes, must ...

A study conducted in fruit flies by investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has linked a patient variant of ...

Discovery reshapes understanding of how tumor cells repair broken DNA, pointing toward more precise cancer therapies.

Researchers discovered a kinase-driven phosphorylation switch that activates DNA packaging machinery, aligning nucleosomes at ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

A new analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Neanderthal fossils suggests researchers may need to revisit when ...

DPY30 was identified as a promoter of cancer cell proliferation and tumor survival. Targeting this protein may enhance the ...

Researchers have mapped how hundreds of everyday environmental and lifestyle exposures, from diet and pollution to social ...