New genetic research confirms what the oral traditions of the Picuris Pueblo people of New Mexico have long described — that ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a millennium ago is helping ...

A research team has uncovered a previously unknown type of immune signaling molecule—a novel compound combining histidine and ...

A federally recognized Indigenous tribe in the U.S. for the first time has led research using DNA to show their ancestral ...

The Picuris Pueblo tribal nation initiated a genetic study that confirms their connection to Chaco Canyon -- a potential ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Genes exist in most cells. Inside a cell is a long strand of the chemical DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). A DNA sequence is a specific lineup of chemical base pairs along its strand. The part of DNA ...

If nuclear DNA evidence is allowed in the trial of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, it would be a first for New York. A lab used the new technology to link hairs on several victims ...

In this work, we investigate the ability of TDG to excise modified nucleobases from the simplest unit of compacted DNA, the nucleosome core particle (NCP). We measure TDG activity on a population of ...