But E. coli is a blip in a rich microbial world; in an age of rapidly advancing technology, scientists are routinely ...

Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functions ...

Scientists discovered that DNA mutations influence aging by altering epigenetic changes and biological clocks.

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new ...

In a study published in Nature, researchers report the successful in vitro reconstitution of meiotic DNA double-strand breaks ...

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with ...

A groundbreaking study has identified how previously mysterious mutations in non-coding DNA contribute to kidney disease, ...

“Now we’re kind of looking back on why those epigenetic clocks tick, and it appears it might be through changes in our DNA in the form of mutations,” Koch said. Researchers say conclusive ...

Neurogeneticists have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup ... entire human genome and grab a repeating segment of DNA with a GGGAGA (pronounced "GEE-GEE Gaga") repeat ...