This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

UCLA Health researchers say study findings uncover Huntington's disease mechanisms and pave new ways to develop treatments.

Friends of a murdered Playboy bunny girl are marking the 50th anniversary of her death as a double killer remains ...

Miss Stratford, a Playboy bunny, was discovered dead in her flat in Leyton in March 1975. Her neck had been slashed. The case ...

The all-new, fully electric Audi A6 e-tron has arrived in Ireland. The Audi A6 e-tron is the first fully electric Audi model ...

In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...

Porsche has dropped a major hint about the return of the GT2 RS, the brand’s most powerful 911 variant, in its latest ...

Site-specific endonucleases that exclusively cut single-stranded DNA have hitherto never been described and constitute a barrier to the development of ssDNA-based technologies. Here the authors ...

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