Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could ...

In a time when what defines gender is being questioned and discussed, a new study reveals that single changes in DNA make dramatic differences.

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA), made from many copies of ribosomal DNA (rDNA), is the core component that powers ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Going by the headlines, the matter seems to be settled. El País announces that Neanderthal men "chose" sapiens women. Science ...

Every cell in your body faces the same engineering puzzle: how to cram roughly two meters of DNA into a nucleus just a few ...

Scientists have identified a new RNA molecule that may play a key role in improving survival in cancer patients.

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...

DNA inside the nucleus is not packed as a rigid regular fiber-linker histone H1 dynamically binds and loosely "glues" ...