Since then, we’ve sent spacecraft to each planet of the solar system and beyond. We landed on the moon (six times!), built ...

The puzzle seems impossible: take a three-billion-letter code and predict what happens if you swap a single letter. The code we’re talking about—the human genome—stores most of its instructions in ...

Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 selects its integration targets in the human ...

Flowering in woody bamboos has long been considered one of botany's great mysteries, due to its rarity, unpredictability, and ...

“While the rest of the genome shuffles between the maternal and paternal origins, centromeres are inherited intact: one from ...

A research team led by Professor Simona Giunta at the University of Rome La Sapienza has produced the first reference-quality ...

A team of Chilean scientists has sequenced the first complete genomes of the H5N1 avian influenza virus found in birds in Antarctica.