“We found that, to search for the complementary sequence to use in the repair, RAD51 first unwinds the double helix of the donor DNA by inserting physical spacers to separate the unwoven strands ...

Completion of the Human Genome Project was a huge milestone, but there’s more work to do to ensure equitable access to the information in our DNA.

Synthetic DNA is rapidly emerging as a durable, high-density information storage platform. A major challenge for DNA-based information encoding strategies is the high rate of errors that arise during ...

Vast swathes of the human genome remain a mystery to science. A new AI from Google DeepMind is helping researchers understand how these stretches of DNA impact the activity of other genes. While the ...

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a ...

Other surprising discoveries for the team included the finding that the invading strand binds to the entire complementary sequence of the donor DNA except for one available base pair that remains ...

Researchers have revealed the structural mechanisms of a major DNA repair pathway in human cells.