The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.
Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...
Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...
Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the 'dark genome' that are responsible ...
Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...
A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found ...
Learn more about the genetics of the vampire squid — a strange species whose genome suggests that modern octopuses, squids, ...
Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...
When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations ...