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

What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal, the bowhead whale, revealing a mechanism that could potentially prolong the human lifespan ...

Bigger animals such as whales and elephants, should have a higher risk of succumbing to cancer as they have more cells dividing over a longer period, leaving more room for mutations.

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...