For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...

DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) represent one of the most deleterious forms of genetic damage, arising naturally during cellular replication or as a result of exposure to ionising radiation. The ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n’ mix ...

Scientists have decoded the world’s oldest human DNA sequence, beating the previous record by almost 300,000 years, and at the same time confusing what we know of our early relatives. Published in ...