In biology textbooks and beyond, the human genome and DNA therein typically are taught in only one dimension. While it can be ...

Imagine looking into the amber eyes of a creature so rare, it teeters on the edge of legend. The Asiatic cheetah, once ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

Compared to free DNA, the nucleosomal DNA forms a high-order structure and is likely bound by HDIP1. To test this hypothesis, we used four 50-nucleostide DNA strands to construct a four-way junction ...

When scientists brushed aside the dusty soil in 2022 to reveal a saber-toothed skull, they had no idea it would upend ...

A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

For centuries, the origin of the so-called Justinianic Plague—the epidemic that ravaged the Mediterranean world in the sixth ...

Through careful kinship analysis using advanced DNA profiling, the team successfully established the man's identity, which proved to be key in identifying three other members of the family," said ...

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according to a new study that may help tackle the pathogen ...

An experimental rationalization of the structure type encountered in DNA and RNA by systematically investigating the chemical and physical properties of alternative nucleic acids has identified ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate in a challenge over whether he had standing to sue a district attorney who refused to test DNA evidence.