Research co-led by King's College London and Sidra Medicine, Qatar, has produced the most detailed map to date of large-scale ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

Ever see a basset hound and find yourself wanting to (gently) grab its long, floppy ears and give them a little waggle? The ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric ...

You're walking around right now carrying the genetic fingerprints of infections that happened millions of years ago. Deep ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to target RNA that could lead to new treatment options for ...

While codons (combinations of three nucleotides) may vary in which do what functions, a long-standing rule was that each codon serves one specific purpose. New evidence, however suggests that ...

The pursuit to fulfill this mandate not only brings clarity to our meaning and purpose in this world, but it also creates the physiology within us that leads to satisfaction, happiness, health, and ...

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...