By restructuring a common chemotherapy drug, scientists increased its potency by 20,000 times. In a significant step forward ...

The RAD52-DNA complex is a dynamic guardian of genomic stability. When this balance falters, cells may either self-destruct or, worse, turn cancerous.

The study published in Nature found Bowhead whales have molecules that can help repair damaged DNA, a defence that helps fight cancer .

Discover the importance of nucleic acids for your health. Learn what foods are good sources of nucleic acids and how to ...

An artificial intelligence model predicts how brain immune cells react to RNA and DNA nanoparticles, helping scientists design safer and more effective nucleic acid therapies faster.

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

Researchers used cryo-EM to study how the HIV enzyme integrase arranges in 3D to slip its DNA into the host genome and pack ...

Cancer treatment has always been a balancing act—hit the tumor hard enough to kill it, but not so hard that the patient ...

The 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research has been awarded to professor Steven ...

Scientists reengineered chemo drug into spherical nucleic acids (SNAs), a globular form of DNA. Team tested the repackaged ...

This may help explain how cells maintain identity while still adapting to new environments: memory nodes link genetic information to physical structure, allowing new genome ‘stories’ to be written ...