Genes inherited from the now-extinct Denisovans are actively playing a role in the immune system of some people from Oceania.

I N 2011 A team of geneticists managed to recover centuries-old DNA from the teeth of bodies that had been buried in East ...

Scaffolded DNA and RNA origami is a technique that allows scientists to build tiny, highly precise two- and three-dimensional ...

In just a few decades, DNA sequencing technologies evolved from slow, manual processes to rapid, automated ones, making ...

By Naina Rao For more than 160 years, the Himalayan pit viper was believed to be a single species, found across the Himalayas ...

Most animals straightforwardly inherit their genetic material. DNA passes from parent to offspring, generation after ...

UT Austin researchers folded DNA into a nanoscale Longhorn, demonstrating a breakthrough that could help deliver cancer drugs ...

On June 12, 2025, an Air India flight crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 260 people. The plane was carrying over 33,000 gallons (125,000 liters) of fuel, leading to a massive fire, and several ...

This summer marks 30 years since one of the biggest advances in criminal investigations, DNA profiling, identified a killer. Every cell within every living creature contains DNA material. That ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...