MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain ...

A new genetic study claims alien DNA could be inserted into humans. Dr. Max Rempel, a molecular biologist with a PhD from the ...

Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...

Molecular biologists have long believed that the beginning of a gene launched the process of transcription—the process by ...

Everyone has heard of the ‘biological clock’ argument, and how women are advised to have children sooner in their lives.

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human genome—comprising about 17% of the genome. It is commonly called a "jumping gene" or ...

There's no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a ...

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have published an analysis that reveals new functions of the ...