How does your body produce millions of antibodies from one genome? New research reveals how two closely related proteins help ...

Could a viral infection you experience today cause mental health disorders for generations of your descendants? Absolutely.

Shelbey Thornburgh was 20 and saving for surgery when a client arrived at her Houston apartment at 8:33 p.m., appearing calm ...

A new method for recognizing and targeting DNA that dramatically expands the range of genetic sequences scientists can identify has been developed by experts at the University of Portsmouth. Published ...

Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated with illnesses such as sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis. The most ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed new portable field devices that will allow soldiers to identify unknown ...

The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life’s molecular ingredients formed in space before ...

Unlike computer code that sits on a device and does what it's told, lab-engineered genes can multiply on their own. While ...

Nadine and David Lipworth have devoted their lives to finding treatment that will restore the daughter they knew.

A shark long known to Papua New Guinea communities has finally been confirmed by DNA as a species new to science.