An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the ...

A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that mice squeak when it is incorporated into their DNA.

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functions ...

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new ...

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one ...

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

Thanks to the growing field of epigenetics, we're learning more about the interplay of genetic inheritance and environment in ...

A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester—in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo—have ...

The cost of sequencing DNA has dropped dramatically, and with technologies like CRISPR, gene editing is becoming more precise ...