Forensic science has always relied heavily on the power of DNA to solve crimes, establish identities, and uncover hidden ...

National DNA Day, celebrated on April 25 in the United States, honors genetic achievements like the discovery of the DNA ...

The 25th April is International DNA Day, and this year it marks the completion of a decade-long project to sequence the DNA ...

In the temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere, a quiet but powerful story has been unfolding for nearly 60 million ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they divide, a key process in keeping cells healthy.

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Every time a cell divides to produce two new daughter cells., the genome must be replicated and evenly divided between those ...

The last few years have provided us with a new level of understanding of how chromosomes are replicated, segregated and read - and how their 3D organisation influences expression of individual genes ...

Some chromosomes (13, 14 ... A direct sequence-level comparison enabled Yoo and colleagues to identify the structure and genes in duplicated regions, and to revisit the timing and rate of the ...