The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

Travis Decker, the father accused of killing his three daughters in early June, is dead, authorities in have confirmed.

Stimulation of the A13 brain region restores motor function in Parkinson's disease mouse models by alleviating bradykinesia and akinesia.

Human fertility hinges on a delicate molecular ballet that begins even before birth. UC Davis researchers have uncovered how special protein networks safeguard chromosomes as eggs and sperm form, ...

The team analyzed DNA from about 100 trees per species, searching for genetic clues about the history and future of each species.

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

A new test from OpenAI aims to understand how close AI is to outperforming humans at economically valuable work.

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

When a sperm meets an egg, a lot has to go right for an embryo to develop into a complete organism. One critical step of ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...

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