Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the material in cells that carries all genetic information in humans, animals, plants, and all living cells. It’s passed down from ...

DNA holds the instructions that make us who we are. If we want to read those instructions, say to understand our predisposition to genetic disorders, we need to carefully 'unzip' DNA's iconic ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes, must ...

Scientists have built a microscope capable of visualizing optical responses at the scale of individual atoms, redefining the ...