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

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

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

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

HSV-1 is an opportunistic interior designer, reshaping the human genome with great precision and choosing which bits it comes into contact with. It's a novel mechanism of manipulation we didn't ...

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.

Credit: Shutterstock LINE-1, a “jumping gene” making up 20% of the genome, invades DNA during cell division using protein-RNA clusters, offering insights into genome evolution and disease. Viruses are ...

The well-studied NF-κB signaling system is a key mediator of the inflammatory response. Large-scale sequencing studies in humans now allow initial insights into non-essential human genes in which both ...