New technology enables the insertion of a large segment of DNA into a genome, potentially expanding gene therapy treatment ...

Everyday DNA mutations can help us understand immune function and aging—and even mitigate harm caused by some inherited ...

A reanalysis of whole-genome data from 130 children conceived after the Chernobyl disaster has identified a statistically significant increase in a specific type of DNA mutation in the offspring of ...

The genes that could help the world's crops survive drought, heat, and disease probably already exist. But much of this ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these mutations cause serious diseases that pass down only through mothers. They ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chaernobyl gas mask The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

Any detectable mitochondrial heteroplasmy was associated with increased incident CLL risk after multivariable adjustment in UK Biobank (HR 1.5), supporting mtDNA variation as a nontraditional risk ...

An inherited form of blindness directly comparable to a common inherited optic nerve disease in humans has been discovered in ...

DNA switches that predate humans and Neanderthals still influence how people speak today, offering new clues about language ...