The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

DNA inside the nucleus is not packed as a rigid regular fiber—linker histone H1 dynamically binds and loosely "glues" ...

Mitochondria don’t just generate energy—they also carefully organize their own DNA in a surprisingly elegant way. Scientists have discovered that a long-overlooked phenomenon called “mitochondrial ...

New research suggests DNA may not need activation, challenging a long-held idea about how life began and reshaping ...

Tiny organisms on the ground – bacteria and fungi – have a “superpower” that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify ...

Not all parts of our genetic code are equal, even when they appear to say the same thing. Scientists have discovered that ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have developed a new method called PARTAGE that provides a clearer ...

Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms ...

This review examines how next-generation protein sequencing and analysis technologies are expanding proteomics beyond the ...