Approximately one in 5,000 children is born with mitochondrial mutations each year. Defective mitochondria "leave the body ...

The identities of six people, who died in the terrible Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet crash into Milestone School and College in Uttara on Monday, are yet to be determined, said authorities.

What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this ...

Wednesday’s sentencing hearing will give the families of Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, and Kaylee Goncalves the ...

For decades, she was another Jane Doe. Her body was buried beneath a house in West Nashville. Sheila Cummings vanished in 1984, and for years, her family searched without ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...

When environmental stress harms DNA, it can set off a cascade of failures linked to heart conditions, neurodegeneration, and chronic inflammation.

Using data from the T2T reference, scientists linked two new genes to changes in brain size and synapse signaling.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...

Researchers have identified two genes from the human genome’s “dark matter” that influence brain size and synaptic signaling.

Ultraviolet (UV) rays from sunlight can cause DNA damage that leads to skin aging and cancer. Fortunately, our bodies have a ...