At times, aging doesn’t become evident in wrinkles or in gray hair, it occurs deep inside your body, in cells that have ceased to divide but are still alive. These “zombie cells,” or senescent cells ...

Sections of DNA once dismissed as dormant and useless could in fact be recruited to fight certain types of drug-resistant ...

Researchers developed an experimental method to convert skin cells into eggs, potentially allowing older women and same-sex couples to have genetically related children.

DNA, often called the blueprint of life, is built from four chemical building blocks known as deoxy-nucleoside triphosphates ...

Learn more about bowhead whales and how they routinely see out their 200th birthday — and this DNA-repair protein might just ...

King’s College London researchers discovered that parts of our DNA once thought to be “junk” can actually help destroy cancer ...

When it comes to treating disease, one promising avenue is addressing the presence of senescent cells. These cells—also known ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

Our experiences leave traces in the brain, stored in small groups of cells called engrams. Engrams are thought to hold the ...

Elegen has launched ENFINIA™ IVT Ready DNA, a cell-free gene synthesis platform that provides full-length linear DNA templates encoded poly(A) tails.