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

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

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes. A gene is a basic unit of heredity, the means by which traits get passed from one generation to the next, and genetics is the study ...

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

Genetically modified organisms, also known as GMOs, have been a hot topic of conversation among researchers, producers, ...

We have written about the promise of gene therapy to correct genetic disease many times. An exciting development happened ...

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

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

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

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