Scientists now recognize that spontaneous DNA errors, which we acquire in early development all the way until our last breath ...

The human immune system is finely tuned to detect and destroy viral threats. But this same defense system can misfire. When ...

Aston University bioscientist Dr John Reynolds has won a £125,000 Springboard grant from the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) for research into neurodegeneration caused by a rare genetic disease.

The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a copy of its DNA. That's almost 120,000 base pairs per second. At that ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered the mechanism by which cells identify and repair a highly toxic form of DNA ...

CPD, a biotechnology-derived active based on an Antarctic scientific discovery. Developed for topical use, it supports DNA ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Recent research on bowhead whale DNA repair has led to one ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...