New findings show that the mitochondria powering our cells also control the ability of a DNA repair protein to suppress the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), which causes zombie-like ...

Pancreatic cancer’s deadly resilience may be tied to extrachromosomal DNA, which allows tumor cells to rapidly adapt to ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers worldwide, with a five-year survival rate of 13%. This poor prognosis stems ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...

Down to their very DNA, astronauts’ bodies can change in weird and sometimes significant ways, particularly during a long flight high above the Earth: They start to elongate, often developing a taller ...

Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams are on their way back to Earth after nearly nine months in space and will soon be readjusting to life with gravity.

In an attempt to preserve and restore endangered species, some scientists are exploring whether animal excrement could hold ...

Sunburns and aging skin are obvious effects of exposure to harmful UV rays, tobacco smoke and other carcinogens. But the ...

The expansion of clones with distinct SERPINA1 somatic mutants in the livers of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT) patients is consistent with convergent evolution. These variants interfere ...

double-stranded DNA templates for expression of gRNAs for different genome-editing applications in a cell-free one-pot reaction.

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