A molecular recorder traces 1.28 million cells in one mouse embryo, revealing developmental patterns while covering about 10% ...

For decades, scientists have been able to look at individual moments in the development of an embryo: a snapshot of a ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

A sweeping narrative review argues that radiation's non-targeted effects, from bystander signaling to biophoton emission and ...

The herpesvirus can manipulate our DNA with far more precision than previously thought. The virus condenses and changes the shape of our genetic material to hijack the host genes needed for ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

For almost 60 years, scientists have tried to understand why DNA doesn't replicate wildly and uncontrollably every time a cell divides, which happens constantly. Without this process, we would die.