In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

A Cornell-led study is challenging a decades-old explanation for how chromosomes exchange genetic material within the ...

Summary: Researchers discovered that just a single exposure to cocaine induces profound, long-lasting structural changes inside key brain cells that persist for at least two weeks. Using advanced ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Contribution from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, and Kentucky Center for Structural Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0084, ...

The slow march of time is inexorable and irreversible, but that doesn't mean its effects on our bodies have to be etched in stone. One of the more intriguing ideas in aging research is that growing ...

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A protein best known for driving cancer growth also helps damaged tumor cells survive by repairing their DNA, according to a new study that could influence how some cancers are treated. Researchers at ...

Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan, and Division of Genome Dynamics, CRIS, ...

Some modern humans share a genetic variant with extinct human relatives called Denisovans. New research, however, suggests our archaic cousins may have been the conduit for genetic material from ...

A team of Italian scientists recently found a link between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer populations in Europe. By comparing DNA from ...

New analytical methods developed at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have increased our understanding of how bacteria manage DNA. The methods have enabled researchers to ...