A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk, ...

A collaboration between the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK plus Melbourne, ...

There's a myth floating around that most of our intelligence is inherited from our mothers, but there are a few good reasons ...

Before an important meeting or when a big decision needs to be made, we often mentally run through various scenarios before ...

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a roundworm used extensively in biological research, opening a new pathway for synthetic biologists ...

A fungal pathogen has rendered the Southern corroboree frog functionally extinct. Can genomics technologies pull the species back from the brink?

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

A genetically diverse mouse model allowed researchers to identify genes that promote the success of immune checkpoint ...

CRISPR-based gene editing holds great promise, but off-target effects remain a major concern, especially across diverse ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...