In this series, ‘Genomics 101’, we go back to basics and explore some of the most important topics in genomics. In this blog, ...

Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

We can use this technology to build a map of what’s going on in there and better understand when things are disorganized like ...

Her skeletal remains were exhumed from Oakwood Cemetery in Wilmington last Friday and sent to a Texas-based company called ...

At COP16, a meeting under the Convention of Biological Diversity, countries will negotiate a plan to manage access to DSI, or ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

Researchers have gained new insights into the mechanism behind the spatial organization of DNA within the cells of early embryos. When an embryo is first formed after fertilization, each cell has the ...

Scientists revealed how gene regulation and chromatin control cells, improving disease treatments, including cancer and ...

Today engineers are putting their own spin on DNA computing, to both record data and serve as biological computers, yet until ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

Within bacterial cells, specialized immune systems known as retrons fend off viral attacks. But that's not all they can do.

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between ...