This study has shown that HSV-1 is an "opportunistic interior designer" of human cells. | Genetics And Genomics ...

Scientists have discovered that starving and then refeeding worms can reveal surprising secrets about aging. When a specific ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.