Scientists have developed a breakthrough method to track diet using stool metagenomic data. This non-invasive, data-driven approach offers an objective alternative to traditional food diaries and ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Scientists have identified a new property, interface flexibility, that controls how certain molecules naturally self-organize into crystalline supramolecular networks. This significant discovery could ...

Researchers have revealed new details about the CRISPR-Cas5-HNH/Cascade complex, a variant of the type I-E CRISPR-Cas system, ...

At NC State University, an English professor is searching for clues from the past. He's looked back as far as the eighth ...

An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the ...

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...

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For decades after his military service, Bruce Whipple would take his mobile museum filled with Vietnam-era items to military shows, schools and air shows. The 75-year-old, who served in the Vietnam ...

Structural variants often coincide with low-copy repeat DNA (also called segmental duplications ... have been studied so far follow Mendelian patterns of inheritance (N. Carter, M.