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 ...

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 ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

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

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

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

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

GeneDx is targeting a big market for its genetic testing: every newborn baby. The 24-old-company is developing a plan to make the testing common at birth.

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

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