A new study looks at the process of DNA methylation, in which chemical tags known as methyl groups turn genes on and off and ...

Faster than expected: Researchers found natural selection has been more active in recent human history, especially after farming began. Hundreds of gene shifts: The study identified 479 gene variants ...

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA ...

Bronze Age acceleration: Ancient DNA analysis shows human evolution sped up dramatically during the Bronze Age, challenging earlier theories of evolutionary dormancy. Migration’s genetic impact: Large ...

The study focused on rare DNA damage-repair (DDR) disorders, including Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) and Bloom syndrome. These ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its DNA with extraordinary precision. But this process is constantly challenged by ...

One of the most pressing quests for molecular biologists is to understand the functioning of centromeres, the regions of DNA that hold together the two branches of chromosomes and that play a key role ...

DNA Repair Pathways in Clinical Practice: Lessons From Pediatric Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation ...