What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...

What scientists once dismissed as “junk” DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and ...

Despite sharing DNA sequences, monozygotic twins are epigenetically distinct and express different genes, offering a model to ...

A predictive biophysical model that integrates protein-DNA structures and sequences to accurately determine genomic binding sites and affinities of DNA-binding proteins.

In an effort to foster progress in cancer research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing detailed and comprehensive data about the entire genetic content of a ...

UofL Health’s Brown Cancer Center recently became the first facility in the US to offer its patients access to an FDA ...

Proteins from an ancient rhino tooth unearthed in the Canadian Arctic have allowed scientists to look much deeper into the ...

Researchers have sequenced proteins from an ancient rhino relative from the cold, dry Haughton crater site (shown) in the ...

To map the differences in virulence and disease-causing ability between the various subspecies of salmonella, for example, researchers need to sequence the DNA of the bacterial cells on the ...

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

Introduction Exocannibalism (from Greek exo-, ‘from outside’ and cannibalism, ‘to eat humans’), is the consumption of flesh outside one’s close social group. Why introduce the concept of DNA ...