The South American lungfish genome, the largest animal genome sequenced at 91 billion base pairs, has been fully decoded.

Researchers have identified elusive DNA switches in brain support cells that influence genes tied to Alzheimer’s disease. When people think about DNA, they often picture genes that determine our ...

Transposable elements are stretches of DNA that can move around the genome. Many of these DNA sequences originate from long ...

Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

A groundbreaking genetic study has revealed that Italians who reach 100 carry significantly more ancient Western hunter-gatherer DNA than their younger counterparts. The research, published in ...

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple ...

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - With the help of Othram ’s advanced DNA testing, remains that were found in Reno in 2023 have been ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have decoded the nuclear genome of Amorphochlora amoebiformis, a unicellular marine alga ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...