Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to ...

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and ...

Space is a dangerous place to be, but thanks to a recent DNA study, we know that an extended visit can wreak long-term ...

Migrating newborn neurons suffer routine double-strand DNA breaks from physical stress during brain development.

One of the most pressing quests for molecular biologists is to understand the functioning of centromeres, the regions of DNA that hold together the two branches of chromosomes and that play a key role ...

Genes aren't just transferred from parents to their offspring. Nature has found other ways to pass on genetic information, even between different species. And a new study, published in the journal ...

Parental DNA has an additional influence on children's outcomes. Even genes a child doesn't inherit have an effect on health ...

Harvard researchers developed a semiconductor chip that synthesizes 64 DNA sequences using electricity and water-based ...

The specific DNA repair pathway affected is predictive of the kinds of mutations, the tumor drug sensitivity, and the treatment outcome. The study of rare inherited DNA repair disorders, such as ...

A new genealogical study shows how genetic analyses threading together DNA across centuries can save stories of historical ...