DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

A total of 7,000 samples were collected across 278 unique ICU admissions over the course of the study, with 177 patients ...

All of the information needed to build and maintain an organism — whether it's a human, a dog, or a bacterial cell — is contained in its DNA. DNA molecules are composed of four nucleotides ...

Mutations can be grouped into two main categories based on where they occur: somatic mutations and germ-line mutations. Somatic mutations take place in non-reproductive cells. Many kinds of ...