Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

This discovery began quietly back in 2011 when doctors detected an unusual antibody in the woman’s blood during routine ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...