Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

Unexpected slowdowns or spikes in this signal were often interpreted as knots in DNA. But now, a new study published Aug. 12 ...

New research sheds light on Denisovans: chronology of Denisova Cave, sedimentary DNA, and genetic legacy in Asia and Oceania.

The mystery, which has evaded scientists for more than five decades, can be explained with rather simple chemistry, according ...

Great white sharks hold a baffling genetic puzzle: uniform nuclear DNA but divided mitochondrial DNA that defies migration and evolution theories. White sharks show a striking mismatch between the DNA ...

Scientists find that complex nanopore signals often come from DNA twisting around itself, not knots, reshaping understanding ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question.

Metastable epialleles may sound like complex science, but they help explain why identical animals can still look and act ...