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

Cells have evolved careful checks to ensure DNA is copied only once, but how they switch on replication at the right moment ...

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

Researchers have identified "DNA switches" that become active as honeybee larvae grow into worker bees, offering new insight ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interferon receptor knockout chickens uncover how type I and III interferons differentially shape avian antiviral immunity and influenza disease outcomes.

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

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.