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

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

DNA synthesis is going global. The biosecurity rules aren’t keeping up.

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

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the 'dark genome' that are responsible ...

From influencing weight gain to supporting immune function, gut microbes do far more than digest food. They may even explain ...

The project provides a baseline for tracking microbial-population shifts with land-use changes and global warming.

Metagenomic sequencing of stool samples from 225 hospital patients and healthy volunteers reveals the impact of different antimicrobial exposures on the gut microbiome.

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just ...