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 ...

A research team at Kyoto University has discovered STAG3-cohesin, a new mitotic cohesin complex that helps establish the ...

Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of ...

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

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

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell ...

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

This study presents a valuable comparison of the efficiency and precision of two prime editing methods to introduce single-nucleotide variants and longer exogenous DNA sequences into the zebrafish ...

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

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

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a ...