Joanne Penney, 40, was shot dead on 9 March as she opened the door of a flat at Llys Illtyd, Talbot Green, Rhondda Cynon Taf, ...

Reptiles on a Mexican island were considered an invasive species, but DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by ...

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.

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

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.

Research from UChicago dissects how a single genetic switch helps butterflies mimic wing patterns of other species to protect ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

MyHeritage becomes the first major DNA testing company to fully adopt Whole Genome Sequencing; the upgrade leverages technology by Ultima Genomics and processing at the Gene by Gene lab MyHeritage, ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. In 2024 Stephen Rich and his colleagues ...

Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis—a species endemic to the Canary Islands—has reduced the size of its genome by half during the process of colonization and adaptation to its ...