Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

Physician Andrea Ablasser from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, virologist Glen Barber from Ohio State ...

Search warrants regarding Asha Degree’s case highlighted the use of DNA to help identify suspects that forensic genealogists ...

The accumulation of mutations in DNA is often mentioned as an explanation for the aging process, but it remains just one ...

A new process, nucleophagy, repairs damaged DNA that is particularly relevant for patients undergoing colorectal cancer ...

A team of international researchers at the University of Oxford (Oxford) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU ...

Published online on Aug. 10 in Nucleic Acids Research, the paper focuses on the DNA damage response pathway and demonstrates how this pathway can reduce the function of a viral enzyme, a helicase ...

One of the ways our cells respond to damage and infection is with ... DNA—the same way it flags a virus's DNA—and initiates ...

A new study finds that mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the cells' nucleus ... Neurons may be particularly susceptible to damage caused by NUMTs because when ...

Whether you’re looking to learn more about your health traits or dig deep into your familiar roots, having a DNA test done can help you learn a lot about yourself. The good thing is, these tests ...