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

One hundred years after the heroic journey to Nome, scientists reveal how Balto's DNA explains his incredible endurance and ...

Researchers developed an experimental method to convert skin cells into eggs, potentially allowing older women and same-sex couples to have genetically related children.

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

King’s College London researchers discovered that parts of our DNA once thought to be “junk” can actually help destroy cancer ...

However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens ...

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

A University of Copenhagen team analysed thirty tar lumps from nine Alpine lake settlements, detecting male DNA on tool ...

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.