Arthur Kornberg compared DNA to a tape recording of instructions that can be copied over and over. How do cells make these near-perfect copies, and does the process ever vary? In reality ...

They are formed in a woman's body before birth and have to be on standby for decades to possibly be fertilized one day. But ...

Scientists at Scripps Research have now captured the first detailed images of the DNA repair protein, Pol-theta, in action, ...

Everywhere we go, we leave our DNA behind. Forensics profits from this “abandoned” DNA to solve crimes. As technology improves, could we wind up with a database of everyone’s DNA ...