Researchers have uncovered and then overcome an obstacle that has led to the failure of pioneering efforts in ...

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

Scientists discover a byproduct of sucralose that can damage DNA, raising new questions about the safety of artificial sweeteners.

Sunlight is vital for human health as it helps the body produce essential nutrients, such as vitamin D. However, too much sun ...

Those silver strands could be an outward sign of the body’s own intricate defences against cancer, a recent study in mice has ...

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

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

But life doesn’t exactly stop there. In fact, the professionals found that the maximum age a human female is likely to live ...

Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic “letters” long.