Ritvik Gupta, a junior at Johnson High School, has been named a National STEM champion, one of only two students from Iowa to ...

A 50-year-old Gander man has been charged in Toronto for the 1998 murder of a young pregnant woman, after police there used DNA from the scene and investigative genetic genealogy to crack the cold ...

New research using publicly-shared DNA barcodes and citizen science images have provided new evidence on the establishment and spread of a biological control agent used for the control of the major ...

Unlike anything we’ve ever seen before, this giant mushroom also has psychedelic properties. When you think of a ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees.

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated. The map contains the most ...

UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.