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

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

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

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

DNA, often called the blueprint of life, is built from four chemical building blocks known as deoxy-nucleoside triphosphates ...

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

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

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

The study revealed that Napoleon's soldiers suffered from several infections, exacerbated by cold, hunger, and exhaustion, ...

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