When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

CRISPRware is a new tool scientists can use to design the best guide RNAs to edit genes in many organisms, without the need for deep bioinformatics expertise. By making gene editing more precise and ...

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and research initiatives. Talha Burki reports.

The Human Genome Project changed everything. A map of the entire human sequence of DNA was the starting point for an enormous number of discoveries, from disease genes to how humans evolved. But DNA ...

With a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, scientists are gaining new insights into what made the animals tick. The findings could also help controversial de-extinction efforts.

To understand the mutational landscape of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and tumor tissue in abemaciclib-treated patients with hormone receptor–positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor ...

The scientists estimated that a minimum of 10.7% of the human genome is functional, on the higher end of estimates of 3% to 12% from previous studies.

An international collaboration called the Zoonomia Project analyzed the genomes of 240 mammals, offering insights into evolution, extinction, the human brain and a famous, life-saving sled dog ...

To highlight how far the field of genetics has come, we spoke with Dr. Francis Collins, the leader of the Human Genome Project about his incredible career in genetics.

They completed the first individual human genome, the James Watson project, in 2007. (Watson is the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of the DNA).