A four-carbon sugar discovered 26,000 light-years away may explain how DNA's backbone arrived on Earth.

A Colorado man who says a consumer DNA test revealed he was raised by the wrong family has joined another man and both sets of parents in a lawsuit accusing a North Dakota hospital of switching the ...

Scientists at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center have uncovered new insights into how cells regulate DNA methylation, a ...

ASK me what a genome is, and I, like many science writers, might mutter about it being the genetic blueprint of a living creature. But then I’ll confess that “blueprint” is a lousy metaphor since it ...

A new paper published today (April 24) in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew presents the most up-to-date understanding of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The world's oldest DNA ...

There are a couple of amusingly dismissive references made to “Jurassic Park” during “Hunt for the Oldest DNA,” a presentation of “NOVA” that debunks a few hare-brained theories about cloning ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth. For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first ...