An international research team led by Forschungszentrum Jülich and the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed an artificial ...

Parental DNA has an additional influence on children's outcomes. Even genes a child doesn't inherit have an effect on health ...

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 ...

The specific DNA repair pathway affected is predictive of the kinds of mutations, the tumor drug sensitivity, and the treatment outcome. The study of rare inherited DNA repair disorders, such as ...

A new genealogical study shows how genetic analyses threading together DNA across centuries can save stories of historical ...

Some 4,000 years ago, as ancient civilizations such as the Minoans in Crete and the Neo-Sumerian Empire in Mesopotamia were shaping cultures in Europe and the Middle East, human biology itself was ...