Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...

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

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

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

New research on armadillos reveals how DNA shuffling rates evolve. These ancient mammals have surprisingly similar rates, ...