Scientists are uncovering the secrets of a fast-acting molecular messaging network that strongly influences how people and ...

Scientists sought to work out genetic errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s original ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

Functional genomics, which is seeing how genetic variants behave in biological systems through genetic testing, is offering ...

Researchers have identified a large number of areas in the human genetic code that are involved in regulating the way in which the liver functions, in a new study of over 61,000 people, published ...

The team at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology calls their creation Syn57. It is a synthetic ...

In the past decade, there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of ...

A team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco may have uncovered a new wrinkle in the genetic code – an entirely unrecognized way our bodies regulate how genes ...

Learn about the structure and function of chromosomes, the role they play in genetics, and how they influence your health and shape medical research.

One tool, multiple functions In the past, addressing multiple, unrelated genetic abnormalities at once—by, say, editing one gene and suppressing another—would have required multiple distinct ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, research finds.

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, research finds.