Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double helix ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens access to non-coding regions, where most disease-associated genetic variants ...

Learn more about the DNA and RNA that sperm carry and how they may suddenly change during midlife.

Ambry Genetics, a leader in clinical genomic testing, and now a wholly owned subsidiary of Tempus AI, Inc. (NASDAQ: TEM), announced the completion of its one-millionth DNA/RNA test, underscoring the ...

Researchers reprogrammed bacterial bridge recombinases to edit large genomic regions in mammalian cells, revealing a ...

QIMR Berghofer scientists have discovered a cancer-fighting RNA molecule that could hold the key to a new way of treating the ...

Life on Earth may have started with a molecule that still runs our cells today. As researchers probe ribonucleic acid in the ...