With climate change and more frequent extreme weather events, researchers predict that global yields of important crops like ...

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

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

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

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

A new study has found that ORC plays a broad, unexpected role in regulating human cell gene expression and chromatin ...

A Stanford Medicine study of thousands of breast cancers has found that the gene sequences we inherit at conception are powerful predictors of the breast cancer type we might develop decades later ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

RNA-binding proteins use a dual binding mechanism involving zinc finger (ZnF) domains and intrinsically disordered regions ...