Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today—knowing ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...

Our ancient past isn't always buried history. When it comes to our DNA, nearly 9% of the human genome is made up of leftover ...

URBANA, Ill. – Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that acts like a traffic controller for DNA, preventing damage during cell ...

The announcement that scientists have cracked the human genetic code is raising political warnings against the misuse of this historic achievement. The announcement that scientists have cracked the ...

Innovative obesity drugs. Quantum computing bits. A cystic fibrosis treatment. The scientists behind these discoveries could ...

Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will laying out his wishes for the Nobel Prize.

Sweetpotato, a critical food crop for millions, has finally had its genetic code fully decoded after decades of mystery. Scientists unraveled its extraordinarily complex genome of six chromosome sets, ...

The patient, who was not eligible for a human liver transplant, lived for nearly half a year after the procedure ...

KJ Muldoon wasn’t supposed to make it to his first birthday. He was born in August 2024 with carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a genetic disorder that afflicts about 1 in 1.3 million ...

This cover highlights the article Programmed cell revival from imminent cell death enhances tissue repair and regeneration by ...