DNA’s iconic double helix has long been the symbol of life’s blueprint. However, the human genome conceals far more ...

Thanks to a new University of Texas at Arlington study published in the Journal of Heredity, scientists now have a better ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully assembled the chromosomal-level genome of the critically endangered ...

The research offers an updated genome analysis of the common bedbug ... Just mentioning the tiny, biting insects that live on human blood and infest mattresses, couches, and bedding strikes ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

ABOVE: Scientists are exploring the relationship between the expression of ancient viral DNA and neurodegenerative disease ...

PITX2 expression and Neanderthal-introgressed HS3ST3A1—that contribute to variations in tooth size among modern human ...

BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have successfully assembled the chromosomal-level genome of the critically endangered Ochetobius elongatus, a rare fish species from the Yangtze River.

Scientists have mapped out the Greenland shark's genome, the longest-living vertebrate, to hopefully extend human life.

The study by Mabey et al., “Validation of a clinical breast cancer risk assessment tool combining a polygenic score for all ancestries with traditional risk factors,” presented a longitudinal clinical ...

The CDC said that a sporadic case of severe H5N1 bird flu illness in a person is not unexpected as has previously been ...

For more basic information about genes, visit the Glossary. A rough draft of the human genome was completed in June 2000. Efforts are underway to complete a final draft of the human genome ...