Thanks to ancestry kits, two families in California learned they have a distant ancestor whose identity has never been found.

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

Behind the veil of humanitarian aid, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) doled out billions in taxpayer ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Sunburn has traditionally been attributed to UV-induced DNA damage, but it turns out that this is not the full truth.

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, they make so many copies of themselves that the bacteria burst.

Basic information about the Artemis program's Space Launch System and Orion capsule. Aga Khan, World Leader of Ismaili ...

Researchers tagged mouse RNA with the enzyme that makes fireflies glow, in hopes of better understanding how viruses and ...

While they share similarities, the two aren’t interchangeable. DNA is a more consistent molecule, whereas RNA is more transitory. A particular type of RNA, messenger RNA (mRNA), carries information ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics have unveiled a groundbreaking map of human DNA mixing during reproduction, offering insights into genetic diversity, health, and fertility. Credit: SciTechDaily.com ...