In Canada's far north, a surprising discovery: fossilized feces of arctic ground squirrels contain DNA from woolly mammoths ...

A bird long thought to be a single rare species in Japan has turned out to be two. Scientists discovered that the elusive ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how our bodies sense and respond to stress. The findings of the UC ...

On February 28, 1953, two scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, announced they had figured out the structure of DNA. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost ...

In new research, 19 new fragments of non-human DNA have been discovered. The origin of this genetic material is from viruses that first infected our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago. The ...

The FBI is analyzing new DNA evidence recovered from the Tucson home of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, according to a brand-new report. Investigators ...

Bacterial cells are prokaryotic and basic, and carry biomolecules like proteins and DNA encased in a cellular membrane. Cells in humans and other many organisms including plants and fungi are ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for drug discovery, using mass spectrometry instead of DNA tags. "We wanted to ...

It's a major discovery of the 21st century: knowing the structure of DNA has revolutionized our knowledge of life, medicine and science as a whole. In this TED Talk, Nobel Laureate James Watson ...