Genes inherited from the now-extinct Denisovans are actively playing a role in the immune system of some people from Oceania.

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By Naina Rao For more than 160 years, the Himalayan pit viper was believed to be a single species, found across the Himalayas ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene normally considered a DNA-protecting "good guy" can become dangerous when cells make too much of it. The gene, EXO1, acts like molecular scissors that help ...

DNA Repair Pathways in Clinical Practice: Lessons From Pediatric Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation ...

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and ...

Scaffolded DNA and RNA origami is a technique that allows scientists to build tiny, highly precise two- and three-dimensional ...

Although mammals differ substantially in their cancer incidence rates and in the importance of age as a cancer risk factor, there is a scaling of cancer incidence to the lifespan in most species.