Damaged DNA can escape from one human cell and infiltrate another. Like prisoners tunneling out of jail, this DNA travels via tubelike structures between neighboring cells, scientists report May 19 in ...

What if humanity originated from multiple locations instead of a single one? A revolutionary DNA finding is challenging the core beliefs about human history. Researchers now propose that contemporary ...

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The FBI has reportedly come into the possession of “potentially critical DNA” that was found at the home of Nancy Guthrie. Nancy, the mother of Today anchor Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing ...

With aging populations on the rise, the need for better tools to diagnose and monitor Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, has never been more urgent. This disease is ...

Scientists uncover DNA aptamers as promising new tool that can detect neurofilament light chain, a key blood biomarker linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. These ...

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline Ashley D'Souza Postdoctoral researcher Sarah Johnson stands ...

Every March, St. Patrick's Day rolls around with parades, pints of Guinness, and plenty of Kelly green. But for many Irish Americans, it also brings something deeper: curiosity. Where exactly did your ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the ...

Ciara Wanket drilling for sedaDNA samples in Canada’s Yukon territory. This ash layer from the volcano eruption she studied is visible as a pale stripe in the dark permafrost sediment. For the first ...