An evolutionary 'trap' that has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a ...

A study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed important insights into the genetics of deposits in the eye, known as reticular pseudodrusen (RPD), that are linked to ...

A research group has demonstrated that overexpression of Cdc10-dependent transcript 1 (CDT1), a key regulator of DNA ...

A collaborative effort by the Formosa-Jordan lab from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, ...

An investigation into cellular components in bacteria has unexpectedly uncovered a feature with relevance across many life ...

Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists ...

They found that in women ages 20 to 32, about 1 in 5 eggs carried a chromosome error. But after 32, that number started ...

In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years ...

The first phase of the U.K. synthetic human genome project has successfully completed, realizing key steps in chromosome ...

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in ...

The universal features that define genomic regions acting as replication origins remain unclear. In this study, we mapped a set of origins in Trypanosoma brucei using stranded short nascent strand ...

Scientists trace Leonardo da Vinci's DNA through his descendants and family tombs to reconstruct his genetic code.