Scientists from Delft, Vienna, and Lausanne discovered that the protein machines that shape our DNA can switch direction.

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate ...

An emerging field of genetics promises to let parents choose the “healthiest” baby.

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig University, the German ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade ...

Now, new research in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology describes how the enzyme RapA prevents R-loop formation in E. coli, with far-reaching implications for how all cells mai ...

"I know that he drugged me, probably for sexual abuse," Gisèle Pelicot's daughter told the BBC. "But I don't have any ...

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.