Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

In everyday life, our genetic material is constantly under attack from many factors. Environmental influences such as light, ...

Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...

In a new study, scientists analyzed one such strategy used by the bacterium Escherichia coli. One of the enzymes in the ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

For more than 40 years, the Golden State Killer haunted California. A serial rapist and murderer active in the 1970s and '80s, he eluded detectives for decades. By 2018, hope of identifying him was ...

A new study finds the proteins responsible for controlling which genes are expressed in a genome do more than simply turn a ...

DNA repair is essential for the maintenance of genomic stability and its failure can lead to human disease. Various DNA repair systems exist, such as base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, ...