An artistic depiction of a chromosome that is missing some of its "lights," representing rare diseases where people are missing relatively large portions of their genome from one parent.

A sophisticated molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures the accurate assembly of genetic information from the genome into ...

New CABI-led research using publicly-shared DNA barcodes and citizen science images have provided new evidence on the ...

Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could ...

Enduro Genetics, a Denmark-based start-up, aims to increase efficiency in biomanufacturing. By getting producing cells ...

Researchers—led by synthetic biologist Hugh Goold of Macquarie University in Australia—have created the first synthetic eukaryotic genome for a species of yeast. Previous experiments had been done on ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the molecular "blueprint" carrying the genetic instructions that influence the growth, ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

DNA contains an organism's genetic code. RNA carries genetic information it receives from the DNA, putting this information ...

The immense variation in the amount of DNA contained in the cells of organisms has long fascinated scientists. Known as the genome size (GS), or C-value of a species, the amount of DNA in one entire ...