Houston men's basketball coach Kelvin Sampson has come a long way since his days at Washington State, where he went 0-7 at ...

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Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future? Eske Willerslev was on a tour of Montreal’s Redpath Museum, a Victorian-era ...

Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are a ...

Nearly six years after DNA analysts claimed to identify the notorious London serial killer known as “Jack the Ripper,” a victim’s family is demanding a police investigation into the claims.

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...

Over a century after he murdered and mutilated London women in 1888, the long-mythologized killer’s identity has allegedly been confirmed by DNA found on a shawl, historian Russell Edwards said.

Mathematical Oncology—the use of mathematics, modeling, and simulation to study cancer—is at once both an old and a new field of research. Mathematical Oncology, which has historically been a ...

Nucleic acids are no exception; RNA and DNA are carbon polymers. DNA has a "backbone" made of ribose molecules (a five-carbon sugar; glucose is a six-carbon sugar) strung together in a row.

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New DNA evidence has revealed the identity of Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber, more than 130 years after the brutal murders that terrorized Victorian London. Historian and author ...