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 ...

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 ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

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.

Lepidopterist Joana Meier of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a leader of Project Psyche, packs the abdomen of a moth into a vial for shipment from Italy to the institute in England. A bar code on the ...

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

The rushed and uneven rollout of A.I. has created a fog in which it is tempting to conclude that there is nothing to see here ...

Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is a known risk factor for coronary artery disease, though its precise role in disease progression continues to emerge. This study leverages ...

A novel tool could reduce the time it takes to diagnose and classify acute leukemias from days to hours through DNA ...

New scientific article warns of loss of consumer trust unless proper analysis is done. Report: Claire Robinson ...