In 2008, genetic research suggested that Ötzi’s maternal lineage was extinct. His mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) carried a rare signature never observed in any living person, leading researchers to ...

Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on ...

FAYETTEVILLE, GA, UNITED STATES, February 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Age-related cataract is often viewed as an ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have shown for the first time that, before they can start developing into egg and sperm cells, the embryonic ...

New @hopkinskimmel research finds extra copies of chromosome 1q may drive the earliest stages of pancreatic cancer. › ...

In human cells, DNA carries chemical or "epigenetic" marks that decide how genes will be used in different tissues. Yet in a ...

Centromeres play virtually the same central role across the entire tree of life: They ensure the faithful segregation of ...

Men who lose the Y chromosome in blood cells face higher heart disease risks, independent of smoking, obesity, or diabetes.

Therapeutic mRNA delivered via lipid nanoparticles restored sperm production in genetically infertile mice and produced live ...

In the late 1990s, Olympics officials were suddenly eager to exit the business of testing women’s DNA. After three decades of requiring all women athletes to sit for chromosome tests in order to ...

Researchers have uncovered the enzyme behind chromothripsis, a chaotic chromosome-shattering event seen in about one in four cancers. The enzyme, N4BP2, breaks apart DNA trapped in tiny cellular ...

The age-dependent decline in sperm and semen affects male fertility. In studies of more than 2,000 couples, one study showed men older than 45 took five times longer to conceive than men younger than ...