Maize serves as a vital model species for advancing our understanding of plant biology, yet many mysteries remain about the ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting ...

A new study reveals that farming in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley was adopted by local hunter-gatherers rather than introduced by outside populations. Centuries later, a stressed group of maize-heavy ...

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of ...

Cancer’s strongest gene switches push DNA into damaging overdrive, creating repeated breaks and repairs that may fuel tumor ...

Most people have some amount of Neanderthal DNA from the extinct cousins of modern humans who lived in Europe and Asia until ...

For decades, large portions of the human genome were labeled "junk DNA." New research from Western University and London ...

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found that Neanderthal DNA in some of us may affect how our skin ...

The age on your driver's license may not be the same age as the cells in your body. Scientists use something called an ...

The scientists at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences are working toward finding Tajikistan ancestry through skeletons found in Vadnagar; explaining the Tibetan, South Asian and Central Asian ...

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...

In my clinical practice, many women planning pregnancy ask whether age can affect the health of their baby. Over the last few decades, it has become common for women to start families later because of ...