RNA interference is a natural mechanism for living cells to control whether specific genes are being used. Crowned with the ...

A joint research team has developed an automated design technology that enables the creation of DNA origami structures that ...

The viral type 2 internal ribosome entry site uses a unique mechanism to hijack the host ribosomal machinery by interacting with initiator tRNA and 40S head.

A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has uncovered a previously unknown ...

Metabolic and genetic abnormalities have long been noted in cardiovascular diseases, but the contribution of mitochondrial genetic (mitochondrial DNA [mtDNA]) variation is understudied. Mitochondrial ...

To investigate the prevalence of the FENG8 transposase in other species, we extracted a total of 83 Helitron-like element coding sequences from the NCBI database plus Helraiser (Supplementary Table 2) ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists. By Carl Zimmer Scientists at Columbia University have ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...

Hong Kong police have arrested the parents of a baby with no documentation after they continued to refuse a DNA test for the boy’s birth registration on privacy grounds, prompting authorities to later ...

Most of us have been confronted by that question at some point in our lives, and many of us use our step count as a metric to gauge how active we are. For years we’ve been told that getting at least ...