A new discovery by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics (BDR) in Japan upends decades of assumptions regarding DNA replication. Led by Ichiro Hiratani and colleagues, the ...
An international research team has recovered ancient human mitochondrial and nuclear DNA directly from cave wall materials in Portugal and Spain, some of it embedded in a pigmented calcite crust on a ...
A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...