Sunburns and aging skin are obvious effects of exposure to harmful UV rays, tobacco smoke and other carcinogens. But the effects aren't just skin deep. Inside the body, DNA is literally being torn ...

A new study has been published in Nature Communications, presenting the first comprehensive atlas of allele-specific DNA ...

The Summit supercomputer revealed how damaged strands of DNA are surgically repaired by a molecular pathway called nucleotide ...

Researchers at Georgia State University used the Summit supercomputer to study an elaborate molecular pathway called ...

Georgia State University researchers used simulations to study DNA repair mechanisms, focusing on the pre-incision complex in ...

Researchers say they may have finally discovered the key genetic change that enabled all of modern human speech.

Open’s bonnet, takes a deep breath and says, “It will cost you.” Scientists have harnessed the Summit supercomputer's raw ...

This was an alarming start to the idea of gene de-extinction. As we know from movies like The Thing, digging up frozen ...

Scientists have tapped into the Summit supercomputer to study an elaborate molecular pathway called nucleotide excision ...

These genomes encompass a total of 9.3 trillion DNA letters. The computing power needed to ... 2 to predict the effects of previously studied mutations in a gene implicated in breast cancer ...

Genes from the minority population, particularly those related to brain function, may have played a crucial role in human evolution, says Trevor Cousins.