Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also affect other areas of the body like the spine, brain or kidneys.

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

DNA sequencing technology makes it possible to explore the genome to learn how humans adapted to live in a wide range of ...

Computational biology expert Nadia Lanman helps cancer researchers find solutions in massive datasets generated through ...

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

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...

A Nobel laureate, he identified an enzyme that cuts DNA, laying the groundwork for milestones in scientific research and ...

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