Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

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These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

DNA origami cages constrain individual proteins toward preferred orientations on electrodes, dramatically improving electrical measurement precision and enabling detection of subtle structural changes ...

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The centromere is necessary for the transport of chromosomes during cell division and, therefore, for the correct ...

Marija Balic, MD, discusses how circulating tumor DNA assays for molecular residual disease detection have evolved in recent years. She details the mechanisms of tumor-informed assays such as ...

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...