A team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific ...

A major new study has revealed that the genes we inherit at birth play a much larger role in cancer than previously ...

DNA strand displacement circuits are inching closer to becoming cellular machines. Scientists are finding ways to make these ...

Me has filed for bankruptcy as is seeking buyers. Here's what could happen to the company's DNA database, one of the largest ...

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're all connected.

More than 20 years after the conclusion of the Human Genome Project, Macias and other researchers at Wang Lab in the ...

In a new paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics researchers from the University of Vermont and Trinity College ...

A novel technique to visualize gene-active and gene-repressive DNA regions in living cells, developed by a ...

23andMe, the company whose mail-in self-testing kits became synonymous with DNA testing ... understand and benefit from the human genome to live on," the company said in its post.

via depositphotos. Researchers recently sequenced the genome of the South American lungfish, uncovering a staggering 90 gigabases of DNA—over 30 times the length of the human genome and twice the size ...

A top population geneticist told a Suffolk judge the nuclear DNA techniques and likelihood ... commonly used in criminal investigations draw from larger population pools than the 1,000 Genomes ...

The risks to the mother and baby are no greater than that for a blood draw done on a non-pregnant ... the exact ATCG coding in the DNA. The result is run through a computer to compare the sequence to ...