A new study is shedding light on an important connection between human evolution and cancer. It reveals that some of the very genes that helped make our brains smarter are also being misused by cancer ...

PacBio develops the Platinum Pedigree benchmark, a new standard for accurate characterization of variation in the human genome.

The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a ...

A research team from Kumamoto University has made a new discovery that reveals how the human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 ...

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first ...

Ancient viruses left a legacy in your DNA. And it turns out, that legacy may be helping shape who you are.

Scientists in Japan have discovered a genetic "silencer" within the HTLV-1 virus that helps it stay hidden in the body, ...

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. They can spend months without food or water, muscles refusing to atrophy, ...

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these ...

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these ...

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. They can spend months without food or water, muscles refusing to atrophy, ...