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 ...

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.

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 ...

“We discovered it’s essentially a single enzyme called CYP26b1, that regulates the amount of tissue that regenerates,” ...

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 ...

T cells are the immune system’s frontline fighters. When they detect danger, they rapidly multiply and transform into effector cells that destroy pathogens.

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

Another team discovered they could “shotgun” sequence all DNA fragments ... “It feels almost magical to be able to infer such a complete picture of an ancient ecosystem from tiny fragments ...