With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

Ancient bones can surprise anyone who assumes the past always lines up neatly. Scientists pulled fragments of DNA from people ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells ...

Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just ...