A puppy lived in what is now central Türkiye about 15,800 years ago, and its DNA is helping redraw one of the oldest ...

Skin conditions such as psoriasis often flare up in the same spots throughout one’s life. Now scientists think they know why ...

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, the University of East Anglia and the Max Planck ...

Scheme showing the structure of cytosine, 5-methylcytosine, and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. Adding a methyl group to the DNA base cytosine represses gene expression in mammalian cells. To remove the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is still a great deal unknown about RNA and its modifications. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images ...

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In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be sure that the genetic material belongs to the Italian polymath. When you ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Occupational exposures are known contributors to oxidative stress and epigenetic alterations, but their interrelationships in highly exposed, vulnerable populations remain poorly ...

RNA modifications can encrypt the RNA code and are responsible for a very sophisticated control of RNA function. A Danish-German research team has shown that modified RNA bases have a great impact on ...

Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, a new study finds. After that, the same investigation ...