DNA replication is usually a very precise, templated process, but some enzymes are capable of "doodling," which might lead to ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

DNA reveals a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous Americans carry remnants of a "ghost lineage." ...

Every cell in the human body squeezes over six feet of DNA into a minuscule speck invisible to the naked eye—like compressing ...

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

When a gene is turned on in a cell, it creates a ripple effect along the DNA strand, changing the physical structure of the strand. A new study by MIT researchers, appearing in Science, shows that ...

DNA switches that predate humans and Neanderthals still influence how people speak today, offering new clues about language ...

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...

The fall of the Western Roman Empire is commonly explained in world history textbooks alongside the Great Migration of the ...