Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

A team of scientists from Monash University has identified a single gene in a land plant that could help explain how plants ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one years ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...

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

As global temperatures rise, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists work to grow stronger, more resilient crops. Yet ...