To date, more than 600 genes are known to cause tumors when their sequences are spoiled by a mutation. Yet there are other ...

Scientists are exploring de-extinction to bring back species like the woolly mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger through ...

They performed metatranscriptomic sequencing of the samples, a technique aiming to obtain all RNA sequences (and which can pick up DNA as well) from all organisms present in the samples-;viruses, ...

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 ...

Marshall University. It’s been an accredited lab since 2001 and are a designated criminal justice agency not only bri ...

Important insights into the mechanisms behind Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD), a common cause of age-related ...

U.S. lawmakers are signaling to China that the world’s second-largest economy and its companies face a tough slog in America ...

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

Where do new genes come from? That's the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer ...

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

For any organism to survive and thrive, its cells must tightly control which genes are activated when, and where.