This week, three U.S. senators and two U.S. representatives introduced bills in both houses of Congress that would require ...

With a new generation of fast and affordable gene sequencers, researchers are better equipped than ever to tackle Earth’s ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

A research team from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has harnessed citywide genetic data and ...

For the first time, scientists have demonstrated how tanning beds cause fundamental DNA damage across almost the skin'se ...

DNA synthesis is going global. The biosecurity rules aren’t keeping up.

Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the ...

DNA is known to keep its form for centuries, and the researchers found that their tape could store data for more than 345 years at room temperature, or about 20,000 years at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

The cost of decoding our genetic makeup has plummeted. Just because it’s affordable doesn’t necessarily mean it’s worth doing ...

An international team discovered new types of butterflies that lay hidden in plain sight at the Natural History Museum.