The breakthrough could reveal previously hidden ancient human activity inside caves, acting as ‘genetic archives’ ...

DNA preservation on cave walls is highly variable, but scientists say their work is an important step on the path toward ...

That’s the thing about DNA. Most people think it helps us find ancestors, and sometimes it does. More often, it helps us find ...

Accurate RNA splicing is essential for gene expression and human health, yet predicting how DNA sequence variations affect ...

An ancient-DNA analysis of the bones of two members of the Renaissance Medici family has confirmed they had malaria when they ...

Scientists have built a synthetic cell from scratch in a world-first breakthrough that paves the way for creating entirely ...

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...