DNA preservation on cave walls is highly variable, but scientists say their work is an important step on the path toward ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...

The breakthrough could reveal previously hidden ancient human activity inside caves, acting as ‘genetic archives’ ...

Accurate RNA splicing is essential for gene expression and human health, yet predicting how DNA sequence variations affect ...

Nomads of the Eurasian steppe were ruled by elite dynastic families, including women, a large-scale genetic analysis reveals.

That’s the thing about DNA. Most people think it helps us find ancestors, and sometimes it does. More often, it helps us find ...

Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal ...

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...