With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

With a new generation of fast and affordable gene sequencers, researchers are better equipped than ever to tackle Earth’s ...

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the ...

A research team from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has harnessed citywide genetic data and ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and ...

Investigations suggest V2P may be efficiently applied for the automated identification of causal variants in simulated and actual patient sequencing data across phenotypes.

If someone — like a disgruntled scientist, terror group, or rogue nation — were to synthesize and unleash smallpox, we could ...