Humans and bananas do share DNA, but not 70% as commonly claimed. Every living thing has a built-in instruction manual called ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

SDSC provides high-performance computing and data infrastructure that support researchers doing molecular modeling and ...

People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their ...

Tested in animal models of acute myeloid leukemia, the new nanomedicine was dramatically more effective while also less toxic ...

Unveiling a new chapter in the understanding of human genetics, scientists have discovered a hidden geometric code within our ...

This review in Food Science & Nutrition synthesizes evidence showing that walnuts (Juglans regia L.) exert potent antioxidant ...

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

Researchers have created a detailed map of chemical modifications to DNA that occur in the human brain from the earliest ...

By restructuring a common chemotherapy drug, scientists increased its potency by 20,000 times. In a significant step forward for cancer therapy, researchers at Northwestern University have redesigned ...

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

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 ...