An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that tell cells how to fold DNA into the tightly packed, iconic X-shaped ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

Simple blood test using circulating tumor DNA(ctDNA) can accurately detect multiple early-stage cancers in healthy ...

Research suggests that calcium may have played a key role in guiding the development of a specific molecular handedness in primitive polyesters and early biomolecules. A new study from the Earth-Life ...

23andMe had launched two years earlier with a simple premise: if you could know more about your DNA, you could understand your ancestry, your risk factors for health conditions, and you could even ...

Roughly one out of three women ages 14-49 in the United States develop a vaginal bacterial imbalance known as bacterial vaginosis (BV) during their lifetime. BV is characterized by unpleasant odors, ...

A new at-home saliva test for prostate cancer may be better than current testing methods, a new study has suggested.

Deoxyribose is already a naturally occurring sugar in the body, and the gel developed by the research team is biodegradable ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made ...