Lipid membranes, which form the outer layer of cells, can be engineered to influence cellular functions. For example, ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Scientists have identified sequences in great apes' DNA capable of forming unconventional structures called non-B DNA. These ...

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 ...

Traditional vaccines contain weak or inactive forms of viruses or bacteria ... material from viruses or bacteria, such as RNA or DNA, to help your body mount this defense. mRNA (messenger RNA ...

Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two orangutans to predict where DNA sequences might form alternative structures ...

What they found is a new form of epigenetic inheritance driven by ... although the worms’ DNA remained unaltered. Scientists have known for decades that genes alone don’t account for the ...