UC San Diego scientists discover enzyme responsible for scrambling cancer genomes; results could enable new treatments for ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

A Canadian flight attendant, Gaëtan Dugas, was wrongly blamed as 'Patient Zero' for the AIDS epidemic. This damaging myth ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

After more than 50 years of research, scientists still don't know exactly what causes autism. But the data make clear that ...

Researchers from Gladstone Institutes and Stanford developed a genomic mapping method that links complex traits to the gene ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

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

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

Scientists uncovered how childhood BK virus infections may set off cancer-causing mutations decades later: by activating a ...

Bedford ‘s Nicole Steele, a biochemistry and molecular biology major at Clark University, is part of a team working with the ...

A new genetic study links China’s cliffside burials to their living descendants.