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

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

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

Oxford and Cambridge researchers who produced the image map which uncovers the secrets of why humans get disease say it ...

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

Bowhead whales, living over two centuries, defy cancer risks due to exceptional DNA repair, not more tumor suppressors.

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

To better understand how the MutSβ complex can make the DNA zipper worse, the authors used a technique called cryo-electron ...

Scientists have solved an important mystery related to human DNA (DNA), which may enable them to make modifications that ...

Scientists from Oxford have discovered a method to observe DNA function inside living cells. The dramatic breakthrough has the potential to enable the identification of alterations that can lead to ...

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