Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

A good portion of human DNA is what scientists refer to as "junk" -- stuff left over from ancient viruses and such. But maybe ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

Discover how cohesin mechanics and nanotracker technology are transforming DNA research in this Bruker webinar.

Chromosomes can be considered as self-organized liquid crystals Nucleosomes are repetitive building blocks introduced in the monotonous linear structure of double-helical DNA.

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

The translocation most typically found in mantle cell lymphoma drags a powerful regulatory element into a new area of the human genome.

Now, a team of Chinese scientists led by Gao Caixia, principal investigator at Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, has cracked a decades-old challenge in ...

Nautiloids—a lineage of ancient, externally-shelled cephalopods that diverged from their octopus and squid relatives over 400 ...

The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...