The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new technology for measuring how radiation damages DNA molecules. This novel technique, which passes DNA ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study led by the ...

Genome analysis of a 4,500-year-old mummy reveals North African and Iraqi ancestry, as Egypt embarks on an ambitious project to decode the DNA of 200 mummies and 100,000 citizens.

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives ...

Humans DNA analysis reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa By ...

DNA repair enzymes, such as the ligase shown here that joins broken DNA strands, scan replicating DNA in the nucleus. Particularly difficult cases are now known to be transported to the inner edge ...

The 1991 murder of four teenage girls in a Texas yogurt shop remains unsolved, but there's hope that advancing DNA technology will change that.

When Napoleon’s half-million-strong army retreated from Russia in 1812, around half the men were wiped out by disease, starvation and the extreme cold. Now, state-of-the-art DNA analysis has ...

Arkansas State Police revealing new details in a horrific double homicide at Devil’s Den State Park. A young family targeted on a hiking trail — two parents mur ...

The cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors have a puzzling reputation: even though they are treatment mainstays for multiple forms of cancer, they can damage cancer-killing T cells and disrupt the ...

New genetic research suggests that hibernating animals' superpowers could lie hidden in our own DNA—and provides clues on how to unlock them, opening the door to someday developing treatments ...