A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific ...
In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.
The Beachy Head Woman has carried a heavy burden for a long dead individual, pressed into service as a symbol of modern ...
Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During ...
Using single-cell epigenomic profiling of immune cells from 110 individuals, researchers show that genetic variation and ...
A new study shows that cancer damages its own DNA by pushing key genes to work too hard. Researchers found that the most ...
A new study finds that mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the cells' nucleus, where the mitochondrial DNA integrates into chromosomes, possibly causing harm. As direct ...