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The Delhi High Court acquitted a rape convict, emphasizing that a DNA report proving paternity doesn't establish the absence ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

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The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

Researchers say findings suggest it may be possible to stop cancer growth using approaches such as restraining TE activity in ...

The team includes Annabelle Wirths Tihanyi, Astrid Egan, Coral MacIntyre, Noya Slater Cohen and Olivia Gutierrez and is ...

Scientists have long been curious about a mysterious part of our DNA called heterochromatin, often called the “dark side of ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

You may have heard of the fantastic-sounding "dark side of the genome." This poorly studied fraction of DNA, known as ...