DNA

By engineering structures out of DNA, scientists could potentially prevent larger viruses, like coronaviruses and influenza viruses, from interacting with cells.

A study sheds light on the tiny genes that have evolved in human genomes since we split from our mammalian ancestors.

This year, cancer researchers uncovered a variety of ways that tumors can survive and spread, ranging from damaging their own DNA to exploiting the nearby microenvironment for nutrients.

Researchers show how a toxic therapy helped identify a mummy using preserved DNA.

The DNA fragments collected from permafrost in northern Greenland unlock insights into an ancient ecosystem.

The award highlights tremendous opportunities for aDNA as well as challenges related to rapid growth, equity, and misinformation.

This year’s second-place winner of the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion competition shows a 12-hour time-lapse of labeled cells.

Researchers say there may be similar, human genes whose effects on lifespan vary by sex.

The findings will likely help elucidate the effects of chromosome fusions, which can cause disease but have also contributed to evolution.

DNA passed to and from all kinds of organisms, even across kingdoms, has helped shape the tree of life, to a large and undisputed degree in microbes and also unexpectedly in multicellular fungi, plants, and animals.

Though scientists don’t yet know much about it, a newly described process called erebosis might have profound implications for how the gut maintains itself.

Research finds that a dog’s behavior has little to do with its genes.

The discovery could add weight to the hypothesis that the building blocks of life on Earth originally came from space, but some scientists note the possibility of contamination.