Smithsonian researchers have identified the genetic relationships among all Hawaiian honeycreeper species known to have ...

While the central dogma of molecular biology outlines the linear flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to proteins (black lines), glycomics introduces a “3rd code of life”—glycans—that operates ...

Ice Age communities relied on mammoths for calories, hides, and ivory.

A review describing how glioma stem cells exploit DNA damage response plasticity through checkpoint signaling, DNA repair, epigenetic regulation, translation, metabolism, and transcriptional recovery ...

As direct descendants of ancient bacteria, mitochondria have always been a little alien. Now a study shows that mitochondria are possibly even stranger than we thought. The study, titled "Somatic ...

Applying new analytic methods to nearly 16,000 ancient genomes reveals natural selection has acted on hundreds, not dozens, of genes in West Eurasia over the last 10,000 years. More than half of the ...

Researchers at Colorado State University have identified an alternate method to study changes during the DNA replication process in lab settings using genetically modified yeast. The new approach ...

Google’s new AI tool can read DNA like a language, and see immediately if a word substitution will change the meaning of that sentence, the company says. — © AFP ...

Super-enhancers are a specialized class of functional, non-coding RNA molecules transcribed directly from regions of the ...

Some 4,000 years ago, as ancient civilizations such as the Minoans in Crete and the Neo-Sumerian Empire in Mesopotamia were shaping cultures in Europe and the Middle East, human biology itself was ...