Scientists have found a link between super-agers' longevity and DNA analyzed from Ice Age hunter-gatherer populations in ...

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template, opening new paths for synthetic biology and gene design.

A new study finds the proteins responsible for controlling which genes are expressed in a genome do more than simply turn a ...

A machine learning model analyzing CpG-based DNA methylation accurately predicted the origin of many different cancer types ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

A stone tomb near Paris held generations of dead, but the people buried there did not all belong to the same world. That is ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...

In a recent article published in Nature communications*, researchers described a technique of capturing two-dimensional (2D) light patterns into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and using high-throughput ...