Similar to the way DNA damage can contribute to human diseases such as cancer, it can also disrupt growth, development and ...
DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor DNA to healthy cells.
Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how cells behave when division goes wrong. Sometimes a cell successfully copies its DNA but fails to split into two, leaving it with double the genetic ...
We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, ...
Stretched into a single line, the DNA packed inside one human cell would reach roughly two meters, yet it folds into a ...
In each cell of your body, DNA is stored in structures called chromosomes. When cells divide, these chromosomes are copied, ...
Salk Institute scientists identify YAF9B as a protein activated by DNA damage, acting like an emergency responder to ...
Researchers have identified how cells recognize and suppress transposons, mobile DNA elements that can destabilize genomes.
Every cell in every organism on Earth copies DNA the same way. Except one bacterial protein — quietly doing something ...
A new technology allows scientists to map, in single cells, the DNA binding sites of transcription factors and other ...
Every person walking the planet carries roughly 37 trillion cells, and nearly every one of those cells holds an identical ...