Have you ever wondered about junk DNA? Each person's human genome is 3.2 billion base pairs long and contains around 20,000 ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

An infection with Epstein-Barr virus is a nonevent for most people. But for a subset, the virus can contribute to chronic ...

Do microorganisms truly reside in tumors, or do the samples become contaminated before sequencing occurs? A new computational ...

The Y chromosome is inherited only through the paternal line. Sons receive their Y chromosome exclusively from their father.

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid for genetic testing in an apparent bid to harness his own genetic material for regenerative medicine – which is aimed at repairing the body by developing ...

Researchers showed that teosinte gene fragments in modern corn suppress nitrifying and denitrifying soil bacteria, reducing ...

Researchers reprogrammed bacterial bridge recombinases to edit large genomic regions in mammalian cells, revealing a ...

Since Jeffrey Epstein’s death in 2019, wave after wave of evidence has put him at the centre of a wide-ranging network of sex ...

On a recent weeknight, long after the swarms of tourists had left Rome’s Colosseum, a small group of people walked around outside the darkened amphitheater, pausing every so often to take in a new ...