Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

The Virginia Department of Forensic Science has purchased 1,000 such kits — designed to collect evidence from a victim’s neck ...

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

Bats can carry some of the world’s deadliest viruses Ebola, SARS, even COVID-like strains without getting sick. Now scientists are uncovering the secrets in their DNA that make this possible. Could ...

Scientists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have recreated how RNA might have first replicated itself on ...

Science is for all of us and by all of us—it is humanity’s never-ending story, and it should be honored and protected.

Hyderabad’s CCMB has developed DNA diagnostics tool capable of distinguishing between legal pashmina and banned shahtoosh ...

Cohesin is a protein that forms a ring-shaped complex which wraps and alters the DNA molecule shape. It moves through the DNA ...

Cohesin is a protein that forms a ring-shaped complex which wraps and alters the DNA molecule shape. It moves through the DNA ...

A protein called PriC allows DNA replication to proceed in Escherichia coli when the complex that usually initiates this process is compromised.

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...