April 25 is International DNA Day, and it marks the completion of a decade-long project to sequence the DNA of Hong Kong's ...

Find out how genome sequencing has emerged and what the future holds for one of biotech's most important tools.

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

A new set of genes that contribute to Parkinson’s disease risk has been identified.

I think it's important to recognize not only how fake science can degrade medicine and exploit health care consumers, but ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

New research by IARPA has achieved the "impossible," providing the most detailed map of brain activity to date.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...

Research into transcription factors deepen understanding of the 'language' of the genome, offering insights into human development.

Scientists say the map of a speck of a mouse's brain could be as transformative as the Human Genome Project. Here's what to ...