Study in adults and children with aplastic anemia identifies parallel evolutionary pathways used by hematopoietic stem cells ...

In the 1990s Venter bet that he could use a sequencing technique to speed up the decoding of the human genome and he beat an ...

A $2.2 million grant will scale a pioneering environmental DNA-based index, adding a broad biodiversity assessment tool that ...

Loss of an enzyme necessary for a process called lipoylation disrupts the way cancer cells copy their DNA, increasing their ...

After centuries of mystery, scientists are edging closer to uncovering Leonardo da Vinci’s biological secrets. A massive ...

The day is not far off when a simple blood test will mean that people with cancer will no longer have to undergo surgery to ...

People who work to aid survivors of sexual assault in the immediate hours and days following an attack fear that too few ...

A condition that leaves people with two sets of DNA may be on the rise – and it’s posing thorny questions for families and ...

Fifty years after the worst of the killing, investigators work to find the remaining mass graves from a conflict that tore ...

Obesity relapse is common, and research indicates it's more than a matter of willpower. Fat cells retain a 'memory' of ...

The enzyme RNA polymerase (RNAP) carries out transcription, copying DNA into RNA. It's the first step in gene expression, and ...

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79 ...