Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to ...

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and ...

Space is a dangerous place to be, but thanks to a recent DNA study, we know that an extended visit can wreak long-term ...

Genes aren't just transferred from parents to their offspring. Nature has found other ways to pass on genetic information, even between different species. And a new study, published in the journal ...

Migrating newborn neurons suffer routine double-strand DNA breaks from physical stress during brain development.

One of the most pressing quests for molecular biologists is to understand the functioning of centromeres, the regions of DNA that hold together the two branches of chromosomes and that play a key role ...

DNA Repair Pathways in Clinical Practice: Lessons From Pediatric Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation ...

Parental DNA has an additional influence on children's outcomes. Even genes a child doesn't inherit have an effect on health ...

A new study suggests melatonin supplements may help night shift workers boost their body's DNA repair processes, potentially offsetting some of the damage linked to working overnight. The findings are ...

A new genealogical study shows how genetic analyses threading together DNA across centuries can save stories of historical ...