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Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could ...

In a time when what defines gender is being questioned and discussed, a new study reveals that single changes in DNA make dramatic differences.

PanCAN Chief Scientific & Medical Officer Dr. Anna Berkenblit takes a look at the latest in early detection blood tests ...

While extracellular DNA persistence substantially influences soil microbiome investigations, its degradation kinetics remain poorly quantified. Here, we developed a primer-labeled DNA approach coupled ...

A highly sensitive molecular test for tuberculosis (TB) detected Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in a surprising proportion of ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated.