A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Genes are segments of DNA on chromosomes that code for specific proteins. These proteins carry out various functions throughout your body and determine various traits, such as your eye color or ...

Genes are made of DNA, which determines what an organism is like, its appearance, how it survives, and how it behaves in its environment. All living beings have genes, which can also affect a ...

Regulatory genes -- genes that control how other genes are used -- are responsible for 69% of the heritability of dairy cattle traits such as milk production and fertility, according to a new study.

Making a whole human genome from scratch would be a gargantuan feat.' ...

Sex chromosomes are chromosomes, or packages of DNA, that are found inside the nucleus of all of your cells. There are two different kinds: X and Y, which determine whether you’re biologically ...

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...

Chromosomes are thread-like structures comprising DNA that are present inside the nucleus of every cell in the body. Specific segments of DNA are called genes. Every chromosome contains many genes ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

This motivated Monica Colaiácovo, a molecular and cell biologist at Harvard Medical School, to explore BBP’s effects on the early stages of reproduction in Caenorhabditis elegans.Her team’s findings, ...

DNA of the male-determining Y chromosome has been completely sequenced end-to-end, and it’s just as weird as we expected. Will we finally be able to understand how it works?

A team of researchers involved in an ongoing project spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs analyzed data from nearly 636,000 veterans to look for genetic variants associated with ...