A growing body of genetic research now links the goosebumps people feel during a powerful song or a striking painting to inherited biological traits, not just personal taste. Multiple large-scale twin ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A SickKids led study has found that tiny repeated DNA segments called short tandem repeats vary not only in length but also in ...
Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question. The publication of two papers ...
Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held ...
An evolutionary trait of humans and most animals is that they inherit mitochondrial DNA exclusively from the mother, even though the father's spermatozoa have mitochondria. If spermatozoa have ...
An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...
An article by UAB professor Joan-Ramon Daban analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have often been neglected in structural models of chromosomes. The study ...