While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Scientists warn that the human Y chromosome has lost most of its genes over millions of years, and new research suggests ...

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

Nabsys 2.0, LLC (Nabsys), a pioneer in electronic genome mapping technology, in partnership with Hitachi High-Tech ...

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

The New York Times once called John Lamattina, then Pfizer head of R&D, “Dr. Optimistic.” He’s not so optimistic now.

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...