Life Sciences Center (LSC) have discovered a unique way for cells to silence specific genes without cutting DNA. This ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins. But only two percent of the human genome actually encodes ...

Genes contain instructions for protein production, with the central dogma of biology stating that this information flows from ...

Environmental DNA harvested from the ocean, land and air can help scientists monitor wildlife. The challenge is figuring out how to interpret this eDNA.

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A new study published in the Current Biology journal explains how new DNA research from body casts in Pompeii illuminates what family and community structures in the city might have looked like.

But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they seem — and these prevailing interpretations come from looking at the ancient world through modern eyes. “We were able to disprove or ...

New DNA evidence has upended some of those assumptions about the identities, lives and relationships of the ancient people. A group of four long-dead Pompeiians, for instance — once thought to ...

A new DNA analysis of Pompeii victims has challenged the stories told about the last moments of the ancient city's people. More Mario Laporta/AFP via Getty Images Researchers from Harvard ...