An investigation into cellular components in bacteria has unexpectedly uncovered a feature with relevance across many life ...

This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also ...

Life on Earth began simply. For billions of years, tiny microbes ruled the planet. Then, one day in deep time, something changed. Cells gained a nucleus, built inner compartments and learned to ...

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Padubidri V. Shivaprasad was awarded the prize for pioneering an out-of-the-box solution to the global food crisis: teaching rice to be wild again.

London — Adolf Hitler most likely suffered from a rare genetic condition called Kallmann Syndrome, researchers and documentary makers said Thursday, following DNA testing of the Nazi dictator's blood.

Ancient DNA has revealed a mysterious Indigenous group that lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study reports. Although the people of this newfound "deep lineage" lived at ...

Scientists have reported the discovery of the first in a promising new class of antibiotics — and the find was unexpected, as they hadn't set out to find new drugs. The new antibiotic compound shows ...