Long-term exposure to fine air pollution can impair metabolic health by disrupting the normal function of brown fat in mice.

Cells all require the transport of materials to maintain their function. In nerve cells, a tiny motor made of protein called ...

Long-term exposure to fine air pollution can impair metabolic health by disrupting the normal function of brown fat in mice.

Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institute and SciLifeLab in Sweden report they have improved the ability of a protein to repair oxidative DNA damage and created a new protein function. Their new technique ...

Children living in war-torn countries not only suffer from poor mental health outcomes, but war may cause adverse biological changes at the DNA level, which could have lifelong health impacts, ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technology capable of a suite of data storage and computing functions -- repeatedly storing, retrieving, computing, erasing or rewriting data -- that uses DNA rather ...

A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their ...

It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...