Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of DNA can be passed down to future generations and are important for how we ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome tend to ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...