Me has filed for bankruptcy as is seeking buyers. Here's what could happen to the company's DNA database, one of the largest ...

Cells use many complex genetic repair backup systems to fix DNA damage and remain healthy throughout their lives.

Me’s debacle should be a major wake-up call, reminding policymakers and all of us of the risks of giving access to our ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study ...

The recombination between parental chromosomes, a characteristic of sexual reproduction, plays a crucial role in evolution.

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks. Cells go to great lengths to maintain the ...

A breakthrough method for analyzing the DNA of centuries-old plant samples has given scientists an edge in combating the ...

Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Linköping (Sweden) have established ...