A cell's ability to repair its damaged DNA is one of the most fundamental processes in biology, helping protect us from ...

New DNA evidence from Richard Kurin's book "History by a Hair" reportedly confirms Thomas Jefferson fathered children with ...

Two new studies from Johns Hopkins University are providing scientists with an unprecedented view of how human cells repair ...

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and their colleagues have discovered that a type of rogue DNA ...

Ancient DNA reveals that plague repeatedly returned to Europe for more than 400 years after the Black Death, evolving into ...

Scientists found that DNA’s phosphate groups can direct chemical reactions to make the correct mirror-image form of drug molecules. This breakthrough simplifies chiral drug production, reducing waste ...

The ability to extract trace bits of DNA from soil, water, and even air is revolutionizing science. But it's not foolproof. In the late 1980s, at a federal research facility in Pensacola, Florida, ...

In a recently published study in Science Advances, a team of geneticists, historians, virologists, and more extracted and analyzed DNA from animal skins used to make books between ...