Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations ...

CRISPR-based technology is advancing rapidly, driving international competition. Its promise to transform medicine is colliding with political and social realities, even as applications expand.

Whole genome sequencing in nearly 500,000 UK Biobank participants shows that observed rare and common variants now explain ...

He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.

A groundbreaking DNA study has unveiled a hidden chapter in human evolution, revealing that all modern humans evolved from ...

Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) has optimized how to run a large-scale genome analysis study over ten years – ...

An international research collaboration, including INRAE, has published the complete set of genes (pangenome) and agronomic ...

New research shows the prehistoric Jomon people of Japan carried almost no Denisovan DNA, offering clues about early human ...

The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

James Dewey Watson, Nobel Prize winner and “semi-professional loose cannon” whose racist views made him a scientific pariah ...