Every human cell packs roughly two meters of DNA into a nucleus only six micrometers wide. That ratio, confirmed by ...

A hidden connection delivers energy directly from mitochondria to the nucleus, helping cells mature and embryos develop ...

The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a copy of its DNA. That's almost 120,000 base pairs per second. At that ...

DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor DNA to healthy cells.

Similar to the way DNA damage can contribute to human diseases such as cancer, it can also disrupt growth, development and ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how cells behave when division goes wrong. Sometimes a cell successfully copies its DNA but fails to split into two, leaving it with double the genetic ...

Cancer cells often survive treatment by fixing the DNA damage that therapy is meant to cause. Researchers found that UNI418 ...

A new technology allows scientists to map, in single cells, the DNA binding sites of transcription factors and other ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists developed a synthetic cell-like system that uses DNA nanopores to coordinate molecular transport and complex reactions.