Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

Prior studies had shown that the human genome becomes more tightly coiled during HSV-1 infection, which may disrupt cell function, but it was unclear why this coiling occurs.

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is working to build synthetic human DNA but who is asking how this science will impact ...