The rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the ...

Currently, no country explicitly allows heritable human genome editing in clinical settings. It is not clear to what extent ...

Colossal Biosciences reports it extracted DNA and RNA from the Tasmanian tiger specimen, a key step forward in its effort to ...

Scientists have identified a relationship between ancient viral DNA and susceptibility to neurodegenerative diseases like ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA ...

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in each cell – what we refer to as genome size – spans an incredible range ...

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known as constraint modeling, which allows researchers to assess the degree of ...

The well-preserved remains offered researchers a rare glimpse into a troubled infancy during the Upper Palaeolithic era.

A recent study has developed a novel method to analyze genetic variations in families with a high incidence of breast cancer.

Something ancient awakens in our DNA during pregnancy and moments of blood loss to drive an increased demand for red cells in ...

The histone proteins of complex cells are named H2A, H2B, H3 and H4. They are assembled into groups of eight, around which a ...