Stepping away from its billions-of-years-old role as a genetic blueprint, DNA is now embarking on a new journey as an active ...

Before a cell can divide, it has to precisely duplicate its entire genetic information. However, the DNA in the cell exists ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

There’s more to dna than just the double helix we know and love: under some conditions this familiar molecule can take on ...

More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising secret about our DNA: it’s not a static blueprint, but a constantly shifting, folding ...

Researchers have identified genetic material from a vast range of organisms contaminating the shroud, said to have wrapped ...