By focusing on twins and patients with lupus and Parkinson’s disease, a Mexican consortium is generating critical data to ...

Scientists are warning that a project aiming to build human DNA from scratch could lead to new types of warfare and is a ...

Synthetic Human Genome Project aims to develop methods allowing scientists to not only read an entire DNA molecule but also ...

Scientists sequenced the genomes of 2,762 individuals across India, revealing the country’s unique ancestral makeup and a ...

Scientists have observed that when HSV-1 infects our cells, our chromosomes begin to warp and condense ... HSV-1 co-opts two genes — RNA polymerase II (RNAP 2) and DNA topoisomerase (TOP1) — that ...

Discover the fascinating world of 'noble rot' in wine-making and the unique chromosome distribution in Botrytis and ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

Women have slightly longer life expectancy than men, but how does health differ between the two sexes as we get older?

The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ensure it remains ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...

Mice with two fathers have, for the first time, gone on to have babies of their own, showing that mice created with two sperm ...