Elephants have 20 copies. Scientists found that gene can trigger a "zombie gene" to come back to life with a new purpose: killing cells in damaged DNA. "This is beneficial, because it acts in response ...

It's like a molecular-scale zipper in action and while scientists have long known that cells need to unzip their DNA to copy it, we have never before been able to see exactly how this happens.

DNA acts as a master copy of genetic information and must therefore remain consistent and error-free as cells divide and multiply across generations.

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have played a pivotal role in an international study that has uncovered a ...

A new study focused on multiple myeloma, the second most common blood cancer, may lead to better ways to group patients by ...

Scientists mapped the full genome of African sweetpotato “Tanzania,” revealing mixed ancestry from Ecuadorian and Central ...

Scientists know little about Denisovans, a now-extinct relative of humans. But a gene inherited from these hominins may have ...

Ancestors in small communities share more DNA DNA comes in pairs, with one copy from the mother and one copy from the father. Sometimes, a stretch of DNA is identical on both copies.

A Kobe University team was able to edit the DNA of Lactobacillus strains directly without a template from other organisms. This technique is indistinguishable from natural variation and enabled ...