For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

Thousands of new genes are hidden inside the “dark matter” of our genome. Previously thought to be noise left over from evolution, a new study found that some of these tiny DNA snippets can make ...

This idea was first popularized in his 1976 book, “The Selfish Gene,” which built on the ideas of the biologist W.D. Hamilton as articulated in Hamilton’s 1971 paper, “Geometry for the ...

April 14, 2025 – Genome Research (https://genome.org) publishes a second special issue highlighting advances in long-read sequencing applications in biology and medicine. In this second Special ...

The research could lead to insights into the functioning and evolution of the human brain, as well as the roots of language disorders and autism. The newly characterized genes are found among the ...

Scientists have discovered the organism with the largest known genome. At 160 billion base pairs, it's 50 times bigger than the human genome, and the organism it’s describing is a tiny fern you ...

Studying the DNA of giants A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowned the Guinness World Record holder for having the largest genome of ...

Despite the difficult extraction process, the banana slug DNA was able to be run smoothly through the algorithms that turn raw sequencing data into a fully readable reference genome. The banana slug ...

Last year, the first fully complete human genome was announced (SN: 3/31/22). That genome contains all of the DNA from tip to tip, or telomere to telomere, of each human chromosome.