Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

Geneticist Dr. Robert Green is sequencing the DNA of healthy newborns to find hidden disease risks. This knowledge can save ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

By digging carefully, archaeologists can connect information from aDNA to information about the social lives of these people.

When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

TOLEDO, Ohio. ( WTVG /Gray News) - A father in Ohio reunited with his son, whom he never knew he had, after an Ancestry.com ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Chromosomes are thread-like structures that carry a cell's ...

The 4D map, which includes more than 140,000 folds and loops for every type of cell, illustrates how human DNA is organized not only in space but also in time. This information is crucial for ...

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