A microscopic organism from a freshwater pond is playing by a different set of genetic rules. The newly identified protist, ...

A good portion of human DNA is what scientists refer to as "junk" -- stuff left over from ancient viruses and such. But maybe ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

Genomic and morphological evidence reveals that the bamboo bug genus Cloresmus is paraphyletic, prompting the establishment ...

Two identical sisters came into the world carrying the same rare cancer. They lost their lives to an undifferentiated sarcoma ...

A single-celled organism scooped from an artificial pond in Oxford University Parks reads the stop signals UAA and UAG as two ...

The significance of BpyAla-mediated nucleic acid cleavage becomes clearer when placed in the broader context of how natural ...

Long-read DNA testing diagnosed 35% of previously unsolved inherited muscle disease cases, detecting complex genetic changes ...

Genetic influences on complex traits change over the lifespan. Schoeler et al. show that cross-sectional and longitudinal studies can give different estimates of how genetic effects change with age, ...

Just a decade or two ago, you’d have to rely on your parents, grandparents, and other family members to learn more about your family’s ancestry and personal history. Ancestry wants to help you take ...

RNA therapeutics struggle to reach the right cells. A Northeastern chemist designed a carrier that steers them to specific ...

Imagine a medicine that stops seizures at their source, switches off instructions that keep a cancerous tumor growing and ...