Oxford and Cambridge researchers who produced the image map which uncovers the secrets of why humans get disease say it ...

Our records of the human genome may still be missing tens of thousands of 'dark' genes. These hard-to-detect sequences of genetic material can code for tiny proteins, some involved in disease ...

Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

Recent research has uncovered a fascinating mechanism in the nematode worm C. elegans that could have profound implications ...

They observe how the mobile DNA LINE-1 copies its sequence in human cells, revealing the precise mechanism of the ORF2p gene.

Humans and bananas do share DNA, but not 70% as commonly claimed. Every living thing has a built-in instruction manual called ...

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The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to design thousands of new DNA switches that can precisely control the expression of a gene in different cell types. Their new approach opens the ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new advances in basic and biomedical research published in the journal Science by the Spanish National Cancer Research ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

In a study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers found that the key to the whales’ lifespans is a ...