The genetic heritage is not a simple, static list inside the cell nucleus. It unfolds into a dynamic architecture whose ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's ...

From Santa’s reindeer and the Hanukkah armadillo to some very festive sea worms, our changing world is changing life for ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Human remains found by a family dog in Alabama on four separate occasions were finally identified as belonging to a man who ...

This is because the human genome is not linear. It loops and it folds. Genes interact with one another. And these ...

A team of researchers has generated one of the most detailed 3D maps of human chromosomes, cataloging over 140,000 DNA looping interactions.

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...

Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...

CpG density and epigenetic modification state modulate DNA mechanics, altering its intrinsic compatibility with nucleosome formation.

“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...