Seven people who lived about 6,000 years ago were excavated at Checua, an archaeological site roughly 3,000 meters (about ...

Indian-origin scientist Shankar Balasubramanian has won the 2026 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his contribution to ...

Researchers are exploring how DNA–protein hydrogels can turn molecular information into mechanical and functional properties ...

According to a study published on August 26 in PLOS One, evidence suggests cacao reached the city of Etowah by around the ...

Few ideas in modern biology have captured the public imagination quite like epigenetics. The promise is seductive: chemical ...

Cancer cells that carry ecDNA appear to rely on specialized repair machinery to keep these fragile DNA circles intact. Credit ...

A human gene found in a poxvirus is displaying a behavior geneticists have never seen before. Not only is it the first time ...

In August 1997, four scientists met at a pub in Cambridge with little more than an idea about how DNA could be read faster.

For decades, biology has been organized around a deceptively simple idea: DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is translated into ...

Human Longevity is offering clinical-grade whole-genome sequencing for $599 as it builds an AI-driven platform for personalised health and disease-risk prediction.

When looking at a long string of characters, you notice that after a short gap, similar sequences appear repeatedly. Moreover ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a non-invasive stool-based DNA test that identifies microbial signatures linked to ...