When science involves visualizing the intricate movements of DNA through time and space, examining minutiae like how DNA folds and rearranges itself during cell division, or the relationships between ...

When scientists want to trace how a species has changed over time—and predict its prospects for survival—they turn to DNA. But what if the genetic map guiding them belongs to the wrong animal?

The Human Genome Project changed everything. A map of the entire human sequence of DNA was the starting point for an enormous number of discoveries, from disease genes to how humans evolved. But DNA ...

The method, known as EVOFLUx, uses natural fluctuations in DNA methylation as a kind of molecular “barcode” to reconstruct a ...

Researchers have built a detailed map of DNA methylation changes in nearly 1,000 human brains from six weeks after conception ...

Two independent research teams have used a new method to develop the first detailed maps of the places where DNA is likely to be reshuffled in the genomes of blacks, creating a tool that will help ...

Analysis of East Asia Genetic Substructure Using Genome-Wide SNP Arrays: In this study, population differentiation (Fst) and Principal Components Analyses (PCA) are examined using >200 K genotypes ...

History came full circle yesterday on a stage in Washington: James D. Watson, one of two scientists who unraveled the basic structure of DNA nearly half a century ago, beamed as his scientific ...

This story is one of many exploring recent advances in the science of longevity and aging. The following few articles in the series, including this one, will focus on the relationship between genetics ...

National Eye Institute (NEI) researchers have mapped the organization of human retinal cell chromatin, the fibers that package three billion nucleotide-long DNA molecules into compact structures that ...

The visible effects of ageing on our body are in part linked to invisible changes in gene activity. The epigenetic process of DNA methylation — the addition or removal of tags called methyl groups — ...

Female (right) and male (left) individuals found in grave 38 in the settlement of La Almoloya in Spain. It is one of the richest burials found in an El Argar, a settlement dating back to 2200 to 1550 ...