It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That ...

These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human ...