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Through DNA and Beyond: A Postdoc Journey of Collaboration and Discovery | Research Communities by Springer Nature

Imaging a balancing act, ‘through-DNA’ | Research Communities by Springer Nature

DNA of 1,000 year-old maize sheds light on origins of globally important food crop | ScienceDaily

Researchers have tested ancient DNA from corn found at archaeological sites in Arkansas, shedding new light on the dispersal of one of the world's most important food crops.

Study reveals how DNA folding drives gene activity bursts

Researchers at Kyushu University have revealed how spatial distance between specific regions of DNA is linked to bursts of gene activity.

Chloroplasts' ancient origins: Organelles may have emerged as energy producers before switching to carbon assimilation

One of the most momentous events in the history of life involved endosymbiosis—a process by which one organism engulfed another and, instead of ingesting it, incorporated its DNA and functions into itself.

Studies pin down exactly when humans and Neanderthals swapped DNA - Ars Technica

We may owe our tiny sliver of Neanderthal DNA to just a couple of hundred Neanderthals.

Reader Asks: What Is Denisovan DNA? | Evolution News

The “Denisovans” are kind of a fictional group from which we only have a few fragmented bone specimens.

Oldest modern human genomes sequenced | ScienceDaily

Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern human genomes to date. The genomes were recovered from seven individuals who lived between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago in Ranis, Germany and Zlaty kun, Czechia. These genomes belonged to individuals who were part of a small, closely related human group that first split off from the population that left Africa around 50,000 years ago and later settled the rest of the world. Although they separated early, the Neanderthal DNA in their genomes traces back to an admixture event common to all people outside Africa, that the researchers date to around 45,000-49,000 years ago, much later than previously thought.

New discovery reveals twisting action of molecular motors in the DNA

Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology and the IMP Vienna Biocenter discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes.

Nobel for Discovery of Function for “Junk DNA” | Evolution News

That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s.