With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

Genes on the sex chromosomes would be expected to show different activity between men (with an X chromosome and a Y ...

Published in Current Biology, a new method from scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) harnesses ‘jumping genes’ to recreate the termite tree of life, showcasing a new ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their ...

Researchers set a new world record for the fastest DNA sequencing, completing a whole genome in under four hours—a ...

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

An artificial intelligence model predicts how brain immune cells react to RNA and DNA nanoparticles, helping scientists design safer and more effective nucleic acid therapies faster.

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

A newly discovered protein from Earth's toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual ... Feinberg School of Medicine New research reveals the second language of the human genome – one not written in its chemical ...