Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to ...

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and ...

Space is a dangerous place to be, but thanks to a recent DNA study, we know that an extended visit can wreak long-term ...

Genes aren't just transferred from parents to their offspring. Nature has found other ways to pass on genetic information, even between different species. And a new study, published in the journal ...

Migrating newborn neurons suffer routine double-strand DNA breaks from physical stress during brain development.

Parental DNA has an additional influence on children's outcomes. Even genes a child doesn't inherit have an effect on health ...

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Harvard researchers developed a semiconductor chip that synthesizes 64 DNA sequences using electricity and water-based ...

A new genealogical study shows how genetic analyses threading together DNA across centuries can save stories of historical ...