Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a ...

Evolutionary biologists are uncovering genomic mechanisms that allow populations to adapt quickly to different, hyperlocal ...

A long‑overlooked stretch of the human genome appears to play a distinct role in shaping the social and stereotypic ...

Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design have engineered larger, virus-like protein cages ...

Throughout history, most of the world's genomic research has relied on DNA data from people of European ancestry.

A major international study has uncovered several new genetic clues tied to hyperemesis gravidarum, a debilitating form of ...

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...

DNA is everywhere in the world's oceans—not only packaged inside cells from skin, scales, mucus, feces, and blood, but also ...

Experts compared DNA from 49 skeletons buried in a cemetery in St. Mary's City to genetic data shared by 11.5 million 23andMe users. They also identified a skeleton that be the remains of the colony's ...

As an undergraduate, I was taught that Homo sapiens was one of these branches that emerged in Africa, spread across the world ...

The acquisition is Lilly’s latest push into genetic medicine, giving it a technology designed to overcome some of the field’s ...