View of a baby lying in bed. Feet up and diaper. LONDON - A pioneering IVF technique combining DNA from three people to protect a baby from a rare genetic disease has been used in Britain, leading to ...

A CALeDNA research team at San Felipe Lake collects sediment to search for DNA from plants and animals pre-European arrival for a project hosted on eDNA Explorer. (Photo by Sean Johnson) A genomics ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

A new hereditary condition has been discovered that affects patients’ ability to repair DNA – leaving them both at greater risk of developing blood cancer, and unable to repair some of the damage ...

Rebecca Day works with the charity Rett UK. She has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council's Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences. Eirini Sanoudaki and Sarah Cooper do ...

One of the things that emerging diseases, including the COVID and Zika pandemics, have taught us is that it’s tough to keep up with infectious diseases in the modern world. Things like air travel can ...

Scripps Research scientists have discovered how some tumors endure DNA damage, revealing a potential new way to target them. The DNA inside our cells is constantly exposed to damage, and one of the ...

Affected populations: Xeroderma pigmentosum is a rare genetic disorder that makes people's skin extremely sensitive to the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) light. Both males and females can develop ...

Mutations that involve DNA from energy-producing mitochondria being mistakenly added to the main genome of cells were thought to be exceedingly rare. Now, a study of brain tissue shows these mutations ...

Scientists have discovered an ancient protein that has the rare property of being ‘ambidextrous’ — it can function in mirror-image forms. The molecule could be a relic of a time when life based on ...