A skilled experimentalist, he developed novel techniques for sequencing proteins and DNA that revolutionized science and are still in use today. An average student. Frederick Sanger was born on ...

In a groundbreaking shift in our understanding of mutations, researchers have discovered types of DNA damage in healthy cells ...

Chinese scientists are developing a new type of hypersonic glide vehicle using a skipping stone trajectory that will increase ...

Following World War II and the Holocaust, the science of eugenics was discredited. It was soon forgotten by many. But when Margaret Sanger was being lauded for her role in the creation of the Pill ...

The study, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge, the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (IBV) at ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells’ in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

New research looked at how cancers arise in children who are predisposed to developing the childhood kidney cancer, Wilms tumor, which could help anticipate the development of tumors before they fully ...

Sanger sequencing is the unsung workhorse of ... products are made as you intended,” says Thermo Fisher application scientist Claudia Litterst, who works with biopharma customers to develop ...

Researchers have described how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus genetically adapts to humans, including mutations that ...