Ever since an at-home DNA test revealed a Nigerian ancestry, life-long Evanston resident Tina Penick has reflected on what might have been. “What if we lived in Nigeria? What would that look like?” ...

Researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer. Every day, billions of cells in your body ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...