What if your connection to nature isn’t just personal but ancestral, or even biological? Emerging science helps explain our ...

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) ...

The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks. Cells go to great lengths to maintain the ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have unravelled the complex network that cells use to repair their genetic material. By examining ...

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now ...

The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks. Cells go to great lengths to maintain the ...

A medical breakthrough could result in the first treatment for rare but serious diseases in which genetic defects disrupt ...

The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha - a 'living fossil'.

The UK's first pilot wastewater monitoring centre could help avoid future pandemics, a university has said. The public health ...

Most plastics used today – roughly 75% – are made of semicrystalline polymers. These materials have a layered structure that ...

Epigenetic changes in the placenta may shape how the fetal brain develops and thus influence the risk of psychiatric ...