Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Scientists are turning DNA into tiny robots that can move, sense, and deliver drugs, pushing nanotechnology closer to ...

DNA, long known as the molecule that carries genetic information, is taking on a new role in science. Researchers now see it ...

RNA vaccines saved millions of lives during COVID-19 but have limitations like waning immunity and complex production.

For a brief time in history, humans and Neanderthals shared the Earth, swapping DNA, but the details of that swapping might ...

An international research team led by scientists from Skoltech has developed a method to position molecules on the surface of ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

DNA stores the instructions for life and, along with enzymes and other molecules, computes everything from hair color to risk of developing diseases. Harnessing that prowess and immense storage ...

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One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ's dense tissue to define the margins between malignant and normal tissue. A new study uses DNA origami ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new way to precisely place quantum light sources on chips ...