More than 20 years after people got a peek at the first draft of the human genome, our genetic instruction book, researchers have unlocked the next level: the human pangenome. The more complete ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

For decades, the central dogma of molecular biology—DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease. This model explained ...

"Complex chemical processes are essential for making DNA." This long-held assumption in the field of biotechnology has been ...

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The 2024 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is awarded to Zhijian (James) Chen for his landmark discoveries that explain how DNA stimulates immune responses. DNA is best known as genetic ...

A review describing how glioma stem cells exploit DNA damage response plasticity through checkpoint signaling, DNA repair, epigenetic regulation, translation, metabolism, and transcriptional recovery ...

A tiny bubble of lipids, enzymes and DNA has done something biologists have chased for years: it carried out a full cycle of ...

Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...

Retrospective fragmentomics capability lets biopharma and academic researchers extract a second dimension of biology from archived liquid biopsy DNA sequencing dataDURHAM, N.C., July 08, 2026 (GLOBE ...

Learn how SpudCell, a synthetic cell built from chemical parts, can grow, divide, copy its DNA, and bring life-like behavior ...