A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...

Is Obesity Genetic or Environmental? Get All the Details This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key ...

Genetic records from more than 20,000 children in the United States, collected to understand how young brains grow and how ...

In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice is stuck in a never-ending race with the Red Queen yet never gains a ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the evolution of spinnerets.

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

CRISPR–Cas9-based therapies are widely investigated for their clinical applications. However, there are limitations ...

When two defective gene variants combine, normal protein function can sometimes be restored.

Our genome isn’t as peaceful as it looks—some DNA elements are constantly trying to disrupt it. Scientists studying fruit ...

Around 45 percent of human DNA is made up of transposable elements, or TEs—genetic leftovers from now-extinct viruses that scientists once believed to be “junk DNA.” But that view is changing, and a ...

Genetic disorders occur due to alterations in the primary genetic material—deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)—of an organism.

Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties celebrated tri-county biological science center, which will streamline DNA and ...