Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

Authorities are not describing what they found as remains. They describe it only as "fire debris" and said a federal lab is ...

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

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

Colibactin is a powerful toxin produced by Escherichia coli and other bacteria living in the human gut. This highly unstable ...

New ultra-detailed imaging exposes the hidden structure and behavior of chromatin condensates — and hints at how their ...