It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Researchers have identified elusive DNA switches in brain support cells that influence genes tied to Alzheimer’s disease. When people think about DNA, they often picture genes that determine our ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

Attorney General Peter Neronha said in a situation of chaos, witnesses are going to have different accounts. Right now, they are reconciling those accounts.

At the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, mouse geneticist Antoine Peters and his team investigate how ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

New research shows that CTE may stem from DNA damage and inflammation set in motion by blows to the head. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...