In brain tissue from people who died with aFTLD-U – a rare subtype of dementia marked by early behavior change – chromosome ...

DNA makes up only half of the material inside chromosomes – far less than was previously thought – a study has revealed. Up to 47 per cent of their structure is a mysterious sheath that surrounds the ...

"Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas." Palindromes may be fun for linguaphiles, but these same-backward-as-forward phrases can be disastrous for your DNA, Tufts University researchers have found.

A new discovery by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics (BDR) in Japan upends decades of assumptions regarding DNA replication. Led by Ichiro Hiratani and colleagues, the ...

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the ...