Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known ...

A chemical in common-use plastics may cause DNA damage and infertility in women, a new Harvard Medical School study shows.

A trio of research papers from Stanford Medicine researchers and their international collaborators transforms scientists' understanding of how small DNA circles -; until recently dismissed as ...

Tiny circles called ecDNA are critical in cancer development and drug resistance. An international team publishes landmark studies detailing new findings and potential therapies.

A team of microbiologists and virologists at Wuhan University, working with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

The "RNA world" hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on RNA -; a single-stranded molecule similar in many ways to DNA -; like some modern viruses. This is because, ...

Along with defending against pathogens, the body's innate immune system helps to protect the stability of our genomes in ...

Therapeutics and OpenBench today announced a collaboration to discover small molecule inhibitors using OpenBench’s structure-based machine learning platform. The collaboration will focus initially on ...