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

New data reveals differences in gene activity in the brains of men and women. They start in the womb and evolved millions of ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

DNA structures captured in ‘exquisite detail’ using new technique - Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of ...

Ancient snakes once possessed four limbs, but evolution dramatically reshaped them. A genetic 'switch' called the ZRS ...

We have written about the promise of gene therapy to correct genetic disease many times. An exciting development happened ...

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

While some practices remain controversial or speculative, biohackers are united by a shared curiosity: how can we engineer ...

What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...

Acute myeloid leukemia driven by tandem duplications within the UBTF gene (UBTF-TD AML) is a high-risk pediatric cancer in ...