If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

Also, in the second paragraph of the section headed ‘Comparison of chromosome 21 with other autosomes’, the second sequence should read ‘For example, a 100-kb region of a contig (AP001656 ...

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

A new paper describes how scientists used the tool to identify an important role for TRIM24 in mediating telomere repair after cells divide.

Controversial project could create human DNA from scratch - Creating DNA is considered taboo by those who fear the research ...

Artificial human DNA, or synthetic DNA (synDNA), would be made without biological parents by instead using chemicals. SynHG ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is being funded by the Wellcome Trust, which has donated Rs 117 crore (10 million pounds).

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Scientists aim to build a full synthetic human chromosome within five to ten years, with the potential to transform ...

Scientists in Japan have used gene-editing technology to remove the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, at least ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin- Madison have created the first chromosome-level ...