The visible effects of ageing on our body are in part linked to invisible changes in gene activity. The epigenetic process of ...

Researchers including those at the University of Tokyo have made a surprising discovery hiding in people’s mouths: Inocles, ...

Researchers have discovered giant DNA elements, dubbed Inocles, in the oral microbiome using long-read sequencing. Inocles ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

Scientists in Tokyo have uncovered “Inocles,” massive strands of extrachromosomal DNA hidden inside bacteria in human mouths. These giants, overlooked by traditional sequencing, could explain how oral ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function are ...

Researchers have unveiled a new type of nanostructure that dramatically improves CRISPR delivery. Called lipid nanoparticle ...

Researchers have found that human stem cells are constantly under stress in the microgravity of space, activating the "dark ...