Human settlement of South America may have been more complex and dynamic than previously thought, new research suggests.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Scientists at Stanford University have discovered that DRT3, a unique defense system found in bacteria, creates DNA to ...

Until now, molecular-level DNA circuits have mainly been used for simple tasks, such as detecting the presence of ...

In a new study, scientists analyzed one such strategy used by the bacterium Escherichia coli. One of the enzymes in the ...

DNA reveals a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous Americans carry remnants of a "ghost lineage." ...

A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

Ancient DNA analysis has revealed a rare instance of two siblings being buried together in an Anglo-Saxon grave. The grave in ...