The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

RAD52 has already shown promise as a drug target. Inhibitors of the protein can selectively kill cancerous cells while ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

A University of Iowa-led study has revealed the unexpected structure adopted by the DNA repair protein RAD52 as it binds and ...

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split ...

The flowerpot snake, one of the world's smallest snakes, has some unusual distinctions. Also known as the Brahminy blind ...

New work from UC Davis and the University of Utah shows how the 3D structure of DNA inside a germ cell commits ... you have to figure out how the DNA is folded — and which genes and enhancers are ...

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

MSK researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer.

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport ... long hypothesised the importance of DNA loops in building and maintaining chromosomal structure. First identified in the 1990s ...