An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a ...

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

New data reveals differences in gene activity in the brains of men and women. They start in the womb and evolved millions of ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

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

Founded in 2023, HiFi Solves unites leading clinical and research institutions worldwide to evaluate the real-world utility of PacBio HiFi sequencing for human health applications. The consortium now ...

A collaboration led by Max Delbrück Center and University of Bath has uncovered how ancient viral DNA controls a gene linked ...

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

For the first time, scientists have mapped the genetic architecture of the brain’s communication bridge—the corpus callosum—using AI and MRI data from over 50,000 people.

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...