A laboratory experiment has raised a specific safety question about a byproduct connected with sucralose. In human cells, the ...

NASA astronaut Nick Hague runs an analysis with the miniPCR hardware for Genes in Space-6 during Expedition 59. This experiment explored how space radiation damages DNA and how cells repair that ...

Sucralose, the artificial sweetener used in Splenda, came under scrutiny after a study found that a related chemical damaged ...

Researchers have discovered how the protein XPD detects severe DNA damage and controls its repair. The XPD protein is a central component of our body's own "DNA repair team," known as nucleotide ...

When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human body, fruit flies are the heavyweights of experiments in weightlessness. Because humans and fruit ...

DNA carries a strong electrical reason not to crowd together: its helices are negatively charged, so like charges should ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Future generations could be stripped of mutations like hereditary blindness or maternal diabetes, after a breakthrough study at Oregon Health & Science University. But the new ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-1958 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed how DNA replicates, helping pave the way for a revolution in genetics ...