In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Transposable elements are stretches of DNA that can move around the genome. Many of these DNA sequences originate from long ...

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as ...

Like their viral cousins, retrotransposons have been found borrowing the cell's own machinery to achieve their goals. They hijack a little-known piece of the cell's DNA repair function to close ...

Pipettes? Check. Centrifuges? Check. Microplates? Check. Gloves? Check. Salmon sperm DNA? Check. Wait what? There are a ...

VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ribbon Bio GmbH, the DNA synthesis company, today announced the launch of MiroSynth™ DNA, its first commercial product designed to meet the growing demand for complex and ...

The AVITA as seen in an image from an Element Biosciences 3D demo. Photo credit: elementbiosciences.com/3d-virtual-demo San Diego’s Element Biosciences has ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Washington have elucidated a mechanism that makes tiny plant stem cells destined to give rise to ...

Genetic mutations are essential for human evolution, but they can also cause harm. Humans have about 20,000 genes in their genome (the entire set of DNA instructions found in a cell), and most of them ...