It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or ... where the carbohydrate and phosphate make up the backbone of the polymer.

Sequins, a newly-funded start-up in the next generation sequencing (NGS) ecosystem, announced today the availability of their first commercial products – the Sequins Metagenomics Core Control and ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Within minutes of the United States hiking tariffs on all Chinese imports by 10 per cent, Beijing announced a slew of retaliatory measures in a bid to gain leverage in any future trade negotiations ...

In an article published in Molecular Cell, scientists have discovered how the three-dimensional organization of DNA in our ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

Amid a shakeup in U.S. science, researchers are expressing alarm over the integrity of key genetic databases overseen by the ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

The fatty membrane surrounding every living cell is a vibrant environment where countless biological processes take place.

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

Somewhere in the frozen plains of southwestern Russia, a 40-foot circle of mammoth bones and tusks has stood for over 24,000 ...