The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Researchers at the CNIO show that oestrogens regulate gene expression by changing DNA supercoiling. Hormone-activated ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

With a new generation of fast and affordable gene sequencers, researchers are better equipped than ever to tackle Earth’s ...

Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

DNA captured on air filters and stored since the 1960s acts as an ecological time capsule, according to a recent publication ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular aging, cancer, ...