Genetic studies now identify millions of variants across human populations, yet most disease-associated signals fall outside protein-coding regions. This ...

A growing body of genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans carried many of the same regulatory gene networks linked to language and vocal anatomy in modern humans, challenging the ...

Three-letter DNA “words” can decide whether a yeast cell cranks out a medicine efficiently or sputters along. The words are ...

New scientific theory based on ancient proteins suggests that genes did not arise as we believed and that life could have started elsewhere.

Resistant cells demonstrated global decreases in DNA accessibility with localized opening at resistance-driving loci, indicating non-mutational epigenetic reprogramming rather than canonical oncogenic ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why some plants are fragrant powerhouses while others remain subtle. Now, a ...

For world pangolin day, learn more about how genetic researchers helped pinpoint a hidden lineage of the critically endangered mammals ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

The Eurasian common shrew reduces its brain and organs by up to 20 percent each winter, then regrows them using genetic switches.

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds.

The rise of gene editing forces regulators to confront a difficult question: How to protect fair play in the age of genomic medicine.