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

Your brain has its own elite defense team — and new research shows these "guardian" cells might be the real battleground for ...

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 ...

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

President Donald Trump offered praise Monday for actress Sydney Sweeney amid backlash over her denim ad campaign with ...

A new study has revealed that "junk DNA" descended from ancient viruses could play a key role in controlling genes.

Hibernating animals' amazing abilities could lie within our own DNA—and perhaps their resilience could one day be ours too.

Cas9 in germline editing presents opportunities for genetic disease correction, alongside risks of off-target effects and ...

Genetics and drug discovery had its origins in the 1980s with the development of positional cloning technology—that is, using genetic markers to map and identify the genes responsible for Mendelian ...