Researchers sequenced the knotty sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing a missing gene that many other animals ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

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 ...

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

A controversial project that aims to create the building blocks of human life has started. It was previously thought creating ...

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

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

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

However, this would be impossible with DNA in spaghetti form. That’s why the DNA strands are wrapped as tightly as possible ...

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