Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

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

Long-term, heritable changes in gene activity fundamentally shape our biology, trigger many of our diseases, and set the clock on how we age. Now, a team of U of U Health scientists is starting an ...

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

Gene therapy represents the frontier of hope in combating genetic disorders, promising to rewrite the rulebook on how we address some of the most persistent and challenging diseases known to ...

Scientists discover new gene editing tools in bacterial "jumping genes" that can be modified to cut, paste, and flip any sequence of DNA.

Scientists have developed a new more precise gene editing technique that uses AI to predict how cells repair their DNA.

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have played a pivotal role in an international study that has uncovered a ...

Our ancestors are known to have gotten frisky with other, now-extinct species of humans, leaving traces in our DNA to this ...

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

A new Northwestern Medicine study has revealed how a common inherited mutation disrupts red blood cell development and sparks ...

A good portion of human DNA is what scientists refer to as "junk" -- stuff left over from ancient viruses and such. But maybe ...