Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Scientists have identified sequences in great apes' DNA capable of forming unconventional structures called non-B DNA. These ...

The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA ... the work argues that current models misrepresent the order in which amino acids ...

Early research shows that editing expanding trinucleotide repeats halts the lengthening process that causes neurological ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

Smith said that this allowed the “model” of DNA evolution to vary across the evolutionary tree and identify places where there was likely a shift in DNA composition. For this new research, these ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from ... are now hoping to refine their cobraa model to enable it to reveal more gradual ...

Smith said that this allowed the "model" of DNA evolution to vary across the evolutionary tree and identify places where there was likely a shift in DNA composition. For this new research ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

Ask scientists which gene-editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they'd probably describe a system that's ...