The two-component cage, pictured here, is made of protein homotrimers (red) and linkers (blue). Credit: Shunzhi Wang Genetic medicines, like those based on CRISPR/Cas9, need a delivery method to reach ...

The causes of male infertility can be hard to diagnose, with many tests failing to detect genetic defects. Sometimes, ...

The FBI has received DNA evidence recovered from the Tucson, Arizona, home of Nancy Guthrie, including test results from a hair sample, sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News Digital. A ...

Before a cell can divide, it has to precisely duplicate its entire genetic information. However, the DNA in the cell exists as part of a DNA-protein complex known as chromatin. For this purpose, the ...

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: ...

The U.S. and Israel conducted military strikes on Iran, killing its supreme leader and top officials. President Trump stated the action was to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Social ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — DNA leads appear to be cooling in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance investigation. The DNA samples recovered from inside Nancy Guthrie’s home mainly came back to people who had a reason ...

Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held assumption in genetics research. What researchers once thought were knots ...

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...