Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have decoded the nuclear genome of Amorphochlora amoebiformis, a unicellular marine alga ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

DNA can sustain serious injuries called double strand breaks, in which both strands of the helix snap. These breaks are among ...