Some pathogens use temperature as a trigger and activate virulence only after entering the warmer environment of a host. A ...

Humans have about 3 billion DNA bases in their genetic makeup. However, most of it does not encode for protein.

Anti-cancer drugs often fail, but a new discovery about how two key proteins interact with DNA is changing that, serving as a ...

Not all parts of our genetic code are equal, even when they appear to say the same thing. Scientists have discovered that ...

More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions ...

Cancer treatment has long been haunted by the same problem: how do you strike dangerous cells without hitting healthy ones ...

Scientists used a bacterial system called retron to turn DNA into a programmable tool inside living cells, enabling gene ...

Pathogenic bacteria often delay the activation of their virulence program until they are inside the host. Researchers have ...

Researchers have built a platform that programs short DNA fragments inside living cells to control protein activity, all ...

Researchers developed a retron-based system that enables DNA to function as an active intracellular tool rather than merely ...