However, the nation has now been embroiled in this "war" for over 50 years, and we are nowhere closer to victory, argues ...

A groundbreaking data storage technology could preserve an entire human genome in a tiny 5D memory crystal. Developed by ...

Torsional stress in chromatin plays a fundamental role in cellular functions, influencing key processes such as transcription, replication, and chromatin organization. Transcription and other ...

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the fundamental building block of life. It carries the genetic instructions that dictate ...

He extracted DNA from a shawl recovered from the scene of one of the slayings, and claimed the murderer was Aaron Kosminski, an émigré from Poland, who worked as a barber. “It’s very ...

Ancient DNA locates the geographic origin of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Proto-Anatolians and describes their early migrations out of the Caucasus Lower Volga and North Pontic regions of present-day ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome. That's a big deal given that scientists didn't know until now if these oddball ...

Agnes Noy, senior author of the paper, told Phys.org. "We are used to thinking of DNA as a relaxed 'perfect' double helix, but the reality is far from that. Inside cells, DNA is under/overtwisted ...

“This is just showing one more interesting thing about them: They have really ancient sex chromosomes.” The team was sequencing the DNA of a female California two-spot octopus when they noticed a ...

Macquarie University researchers and an international team have completed the final chromosome in the world’s first synthetic yeast genome, a significant milestone in synthetic biology. This ...

A man who discovered a DNA sample on a 100-year-old shawl says it has identified the real Jack the Ripper. Researcher Russell Edwards claims he has found a '100 percent' DNA match with the ...