Scientists have engineered a nanoscale switch using DNA "origami." Inspired by macroscale mechanical switches, the device achieves long-term functionality without the continuous forcing mechanism that ...

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

Ever since an at-home DNA test revealed a Nigerian ancestry, life-long Evanston resident Tina Penick has reflected on what might have been. “What if we lived in Nigeria? What would that look like?” ...

Swansea University has helped uncover a surprising new role for platelets—one that could significantly advance early cancer detection. The study, led by the University of Oxford and published in ...

“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first ...

A research team based in Cáceres has found human DNA more than 2,000 years old on cave walls in Spain and Portugal, a ...