A protein long studied for its role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia now appears to serve a ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

Human cancers exhibit genomic instability and an increased mutation rate due to underlying defects in DNA repair. Cancer cells are often defective in one of six major DNA repair pathways, namely: ...

Credit: Zde, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Ancient DNA is helping scientists understand the origins of Bronze Age ...

King’s College London researchers discovered that parts of our DNA once thought to be “junk” can actually help destroy cancer cells. In some blood cancers, damaged genes trigger chaos in these DNA ...

Retrospective cohort analysis of 3,222 men shows higher AQI levels correspond with lower normal sperm DNA integrity and ...

MELBOURNE, March 6 (Xinhua) -- A koala DNA study challenges the species extinction fears in Australia, revealing that populations previously considered most at risk are showing unexpected recovery sig ...

A protein, TDP43, previously linked to dementia and ALS, has been found to control DNA repair. Researchers say abnormal ...