Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found that the critically endangered regent honeyeater faces hidden genetic ...

What if you could take a picture of every gene inside a living organism—not with light, but with DNA itself? Scientists at ...

Officials in several southeastern cities and towns had ordered residents to evacuate Tuesday as firefighters struggled to ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves.

A new study suggests a far more intricate genetic tapestry is involved in the ultimate ancestry of people in Japan.

Using cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy, scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed “molecular movie” showing DNA being unzipped at the atomic level. The movie ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves.

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...