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

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 ...

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

A new method vastly improves on the existing approach for single-cell genetic sequencing, enabling scientists to read the ...

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

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

What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes deep inside chromatin? Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham ...