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

Scientists have engineered a strain of bacteria with a genetic code unlike anything found in nature, marking a groundbreaking ...

The translocation most typically found in mantle cell lymphoma drags a powerful regulatory element into a new area of the human genome.

A Denisovan version of a gene variant called MUC19 made its way into some human populations, who then settled the Americas.

Microbes found buried deep in Siberian permafrost may be able to survive over extremely long timescales using protein repair ...

Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are ...

Scientists have discovered how mutations in a specific gene drive the rare developmental disorder Weaver syndrome, which is marked by intellectual disability and overgrowth and predisposes people with ...

Beethoven's hair DNA has uncovered astonishing new revelations, nearly 200 years after his death.

Surgeons in China successfully transplanted a pig lung into a human, marking another huge step in the decades-long quest to ...

STAG3-cohesin is a newly discovered mitotic cohesin complex that establishes the DNA architecture of stem cells that give rise to sperm.

Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs), ETS-1, MYC, and β-catenin act as master regulators that constitutively activate oncogenic ...