For the first time, a research team at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) has succeeded in ...

Scientists have discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ago they found that these so-called SMC motor proteins make long loops in our DNA, they ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.

In a time when what defines gender is being questioned and discussed, a new study reveals that single changes in DNA make ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...

JSTのERATO審良自然免疫プロジェクトとして、審良 静男（大阪大学免疫学フロンティア研究センター拠点長）、石井 健（同微生物病研究所難治感染症対策研究センター准教授）らは、「DNAワクチン」とよばれる新型ワクチンの作用メカニズムを ...