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DNA just revealed a hidden operating system—and it doesn’t look like a helix. Scientists have created the first comprehensive map of DNA quadruplexes, fleeting knot-like structures that play an ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever. To understand what the ...

Attractive women started showing up in summer 2024 at a fertility clinic in southern Moscow in response to an unusual marketing campaign: free sperm. The sperm belonged to Pavel Durov, billionaire ...

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Using cutting-edge DNA analysis, scientists at London’s Natural History Museum have uncovered the true identity and origins of the Beachy Head Woman. Marsh explained, “We show she carries genetic ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

Genetic ancestry is a concept that has long captured people’s imaginations. It’s no surprise that it’s been turned into a booming industry by companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com. Customers of ...

The air around us is quietly recording life on Earth, and scientists have just learned how to read it. In a breakthrough that turns routine radiation monitoring into a biodiversity time capsule, ...