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

Lund University scientists report that repetitive DNA once dismissed as “junk” plays an active role in human brain ...

The effect of these losses, the researcher’s contend, was to halt the development of the pygmy sea horse’s head at an early ...

5 latest biotechnology breakthroughs, from genome sequencing to microbiome manipulation, revolutionizing medicine, ...

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

Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

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

A research team at Kyoto University has discovered STAG3-cohesin, a new mitotic cohesin complex that helps establish the unique DNA architecture of spermaotogonial stem cells (SSCs), the stem cells ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

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

For the first time worldwide, the complete DNA of all Asian elephant subspecies has been mapped. It has also been genetically ...

STORY: This skull belongs to a previously unknown lineage of human beings, dating back about 6,000 years ago.That’s according ...