Researchers at Vilnius University (Lithuania) have uncovered how the bacterial protein Cas9, better known as the CRISPR-Cas ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic researchers have identified specific DNA-level changes in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Using advanced biological ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

The most complete known Australopithecus fossil, dubbed “Little Foot,” now has a face, albeit ...

A 48-year-old Tasmanian man, tracked down in Queensland five years after raping an underage girl at a Longford house party, has been jailed following a trial involving overwhelming DNA evidence.

Researchers at the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology have uncovered new evidence that two major types of gene-controlling DNA sequences, promoters and enhancers, operate with a shared ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

DNA, the genetic blueprints in every living organism, is nature's most efficient storage mechanism, capable of storing about 215 million gigabytes of data per gram. That storage capacity, if applied ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic researchers have identified specific DNA-level changes in the brains of people with ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic researchers have identified specific DNA-level changes in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Using advanced biological ...

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...