A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

THE face of humans’ most mysterious ancestor has finally been uncovered after 217,000 years. The discovery proves that the ...

Over the last 10 years, breakthroughs in understanding the genetic instructions passed from parent to offspring have put ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how human DNA ... which is difficult to detect due to the high DNA sequence similarity. The map also identifies areas of ...

An international research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in research into the reproduction of dogrose. The ...

DNA testing can provide insights into complex conditions like heart disease, high cholesterol, and Alzheimer’s disease.

These techniques can sequence both DNA and RNA faster and ... approximately 3 billion nucleotides of an individual’s complete DNA sequence, including non-coding sequence.” ...

In Biology 101, we learn that RNA is a single, ribbon-like strand of base pairs that is copied from our DNA and then read ... than the molecule's nucleotide sequence and get a structure, or ...

First, short DNA sequence tags called unique molecular identifiers (UMIs) are added to cells. They attach to DNA and RNA molecules and begin making copies of themselves. This starts a chemical ...

Scientists studying ancient human remains uncovered in Colombia have found that the people they were researching have no ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...