In a new study published in Genes & Development, research led by Dr. Lila Allou at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences ...

Unlike your teeth, though, the narwhal tusk isn’t used for chewing. So why do these most unique of whales have such a strange ...

Firms like Function Health and Oura market regular blood tests to people wanting to take their health into their own hands.

Scientists now recognize that spontaneous DNA errors, which we acquire in early development all the way until our last breath ...

Research has shed important new light on the enemies-turned-allies that allow bacteria to exchange genes, including those ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered an unexpected role for a well-known cancer-related protein, revealing a new ...

What if some of the risk of anxiety and depression in children is not only about the genes they inherit, but also about their parents' genetic dispositions and how these influence the home environment ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Mitochondria don’t just generate energy—they also carefully organize their own DNA in a surprisingly elegant way. Scientists have discovered that a long-overlooked phenomenon called “mitochondrial ...

Clues to the genetic code’s origin may be hidden in tiny protein fragments, revealing a synchronized and highly structured ...

Humans have about 3 billion DNA bases in their genetic makeup. However, most of it does not encode for protein.