Your DNA is constantly changing. And if it weren’t for genetic mutations, evolution wouldn’t exist. So, what would life be like if that stopped? What causes your DNA to change? How would your life ...

Cells from rapidly growing, highly metastatic tumors often contain numerous rings of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA). This ...

Long-read DNA testing diagnosed 35% of previously unsolved inherited muscle disease cases, detecting complex genetic changes ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies, known as "sister chromatids," are held together by a ring-shaped protein ...

The remarkable intelligence of octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish may trace back to an ancient reshuffling of their DNA that ...

Human genomic DNA is wrapped around core histone proteins to form nucleosomes, the fundamental units of chromatin.

New research decoding their DNA is helping to shed light on how the collapse and slow, scattered return of herds to the ...

Genetic features known as transposons make up a large portion of many mammalian genomes, including humans', and they are now known to play a variety of roles. Some transposable elements (TEs) could be ...

One of the unresolved mysteries about the history of the Americas is when the first people arrived. Despite extensive debate ...