Scientists are one step closer to pinpointing fragments of Leonardo da Vinci’s elusive DNA. A team of researchers from the ...

Some modern humans carry Neanderthal gene variants that affect how their bodies metabolize common medications. This explains recent genetic research linking ancient interbreeding to slower drug ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most ...

While codons (combinations of three nucleotides) may vary in which do what functions, a long-standing rule was that each codon serves one specific purpose. New evidence, however suggests that ...

Fanconi anaemia (FA) is a rare genetic disease featuring bone marrow failure, various developmental abnormalities, genomic instability, cancer predisposition and cellular hypersensitivity to ...