A protein that is involved in determining which enzymes cut or unwind DNA during the replication process has been identified in a new study.

When different varieties of one plant species are crossed with each other, their hybrid offspring are often more robust and ...

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have identified a new genetic marker that could play a role in the ...

Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the body ...

The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is "proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function ...

Tending a garden is hard work. Imagine it from the plants' perspective. Each relies on fine-tuned genetic processes to pass ...

Archaeologists in Morocco have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old farming society, the oldest site of its kind ever discovered in Africa outside the Nile Valley. Thousands of stone ax ...

Fifty "exceptionally well-preserved" Viking skeletons have been unearthed in Denmark by archaeologists from the Museum Odense, west of Copenhagen, along with five cremated graves. "It is truly ...

My daughter just started third grade. To see the kids on her class list, I got out her second-grade yearbook and discovered that someone (not her, she insists) crossed off the names of a bunch of ...

Strictly Come Dancing has been nothing but sequins, shimmies, and sassy comebacks, but this weekend, it’s going to get very real with the first elimination. One celebrity’s journey on the BBC ...