Although recombinant DNA technology first emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, the basic principle of recombination had been discovered many years earlier. Indeed, in 1928, Frederick Griffith, an ...

Dividing cells in a fertilized human egg. Researchers are engineering cells so that they can add distinctive bits of genetic material into their DNA so that as cells divide, each lineage builds up ...

In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations ...

Fungal DNA is present in various types of cancer, according to two studies published yesterday (September 29) in Cell. The findings add support to a hypothesized link between fungi and certain cancers ...

DNA is genetic material found in the cells of all living organisms. It serves as a blueprint for how the individual grows, ...

Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the ...

“Human cells love redundancy ... How human cells repair damaged DNA. ETH Zurich. Journal Nature DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-08815-4. Keywords /Scientific community/Scientific approaches/ Discovery ...

Researchers have finally deciphered a complete human genetic instruction book from cover to cover. The completion of the human genome has been announced a couple of times in the past, but those ...

The human genetic blueprint is deceptively simple. Our genes are tightly wound into 46 X-shaped structures called chromosomes. Crafted by evolution, they carry DNA and replicate when cells divide, ...

Scientists have found DNA in the nucleus of brain cells, where it shouldn’t be. Bits of genes that typically reside in mitochondria insert themselves at unexpectedly high rates into brain cells ...

Fish study shows important genome interactions in animal cells. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 04 / 170404160146.htm ...