The new finding is published in Cell in an article titled, “ SMC motor proteins extrude DNA asymmetrically and can switch directions ,” and is key to understanding how these motors shape our genome ...

So how does protein synthesis make hair? If you've looked at the activity (or even the text version of the activity), you know how a section of DNA instructs a cell how to make a protein.

However, in the half-century since the structure of DNA was first elaborated, scientists have learned that RNA does much more than simply play a role in protein synthesis. For example, many types ...

The part of DNA that determines what protein to produce and when ... human dispersion.While most aspects of DNA are identical in samples from all human beings, concentrating on identifying ...

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

APOBEC enzymes, which normally help fight viral infections by mutating viral DNA, cause repeat expansions and are unusually ...