Oxford and Cambridge researchers who produced the image map which uncovers the secrets of why humans get disease say it ...

Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

Sections of DNA once dismissed as dormant and useless could in fact be recruited to fight certain types of drug-resistant ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to produce functional eggs using a new scientific technique they say could one day help ...

They observe how the mobile DNA LINE-1 copies its sequence in human cells, revealing the precise mechanism of the ORF2p gene.

Scientists discover a byproduct of sucralose that can damage DNA, raising new questions about the safety of artificial ...

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

Humans and bananas do share DNA, but not 70% as commonly claimed. Every living thing has a built-in instruction manual called ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal, the bowhead whale, revealing a mechanism that could potentially prolong the human lifespan ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new advances in basic and biomedical research published in the journal Science by the Spanish National Cancer Research ...

People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their ...