A research team has shed light on how long-term storage affects the viability, vigor, and genetic integrity of African eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum) ...

Creating a synthetic human genome has the possibilities of improving human healthspans, but it also comes with extremely ...

Octopuses are a pretty incredible species, known for having 8 arms, being highly intelligent and being able to fit into just ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

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

Research at CCMB in Hyderabad reveals genetic links between diet quality and brain size evolution in primates.

Biomodal reports methylation sequencing is expanding the window for early detection.

This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology.

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

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

Humans and chimpanzees share a close evolutionary relationship, genetically linking us. As a result, the two species can pass ...