Researchers have found that the DNA spools inside human cells are far less tightly wound than textbooks have long suggested.

Nowadays, there's lots of buzz about spectacular new medical treatments such as personalised cancer therapy with modified immune cells or antibodies. Such treatments, however, are very complex and ...

Blood tests have proved to be a promising tool for detecting and monitoring cancer. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now developed a new ...

DNA has tremendous potential as a data storage medium, but the process of synthesizing DNA from scratch is time-consuming. It has to be done one nucleotide at a time in a specific sequence. New ...

DNA is the blueprint of life. Genes encode proteins and serve as the body's basic components. However, building a functioning organism also requires precise instructions about when, where, and how ...

Similar to the way DNA damage can contribute to human diseases such as cancer, it can also disrupt growth, development and ...

A new prime assembly technique inserts DNA segments up to 11,000 base pairs into the genome, enabling correction of thousands of mutations at once. Reporting in Nature ("Prime assembly with linear DNA ...