For decades, biologists assumed a single ‘turtle tick’ crawled across much of Asia. Now detailed DNA and microscope work show ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

One of the most pressing quests for molecular biologists is to understand the functioning of centromeres, the regions of DNA that hold together the two branches of chromosomes and that play a key role ...

I recently sent off a tube of saliva containing enough of my DNA for one of those companies to tell me about my ancestry. I thought I knew my ancestry pretty well and it turns out that I did. The only ...

Farah Jama is trying to get his life back on track after 16 months in prison for a rape he did not commit. The 22-year-old has become a textbook case for the disastrous consequences of blind belief in ...

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Every year ancient DNA research deepens our understanding of history a bit more, and 2018 was truly a remarkable year for ancient DNA research. By February the total number of genomes characterized ...

DNA Repair Pathways in Clinical Practice: Lessons From Pediatric Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation ...

New research reveals a link between rising temperatures and changes in polar bear DNA, which may be helping them adapt and survive in increasingly challenging environments.

Moss quietly collects DNA from animals, plants, and microbes, offering a simple way to track biodiversity without harming ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...