All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

Delhi’s toxic air is no longer just a seasonal nuisance but a widening health crisis, silently affecting people at every stage of life. Growing scientific evidence and rising hospital cases point to ...

New live-cell DNA damage sensor lets scientists watch repair unfold in real time, potentially opening doors for cancer and aging research.

After fertilization, embryos race through rapid cell divisions before slowing down to build specialized cells that will carry ...

Scientists from MIT and Harvard present a new strategy called PERT in 'Nature'. Instead of correcting gene by gene, they use ...

A single multipurpose gene-editing tool can correct several genetic conditions by restoring proteins that have been truncated ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

The emergence of cancer drug resistance remains one of the most pressing problems in cancer care and there is a critical need ...

Some animals seem to defy the rules of aging. Understanding how they do it could help us live longer, healthier lives.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) has made a major investment in a series of industry collaborations with eight diverse teams from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) to accelerate ...

The University of Wisconsin’s Lim Lab has identified the cause of chromosome instability associated with a range of genetic ...

Northeastern University researchers used an original machine learning tool to predict how genetic mutations cause a rare ...