DNA’s iconic double helix has long been the symbol of life’s blueprint. However, the human genome conceals far more ...

Bedbugs. Just mentioning the tiny, biting insects that live on human blood and infest mattresses, couches, and bedding ...

The research offers an updated genome analysis of the common bedbug ... Just mentioning the tiny, biting insects that live on human blood and infest mattresses, couches, and bedding strikes ...

HERVs are genetic remnants of ancient viral infections that have integrated into the human genome. As they typically lie dormant until aging or disease cause them to reactivate, these targets are ...

Sinai Health researchers discovered that DNA elements known as transposons, which may roam around the genome, influence a ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

PITX2 expression and Neanderthal-introgressed HS3ST3A1—that contribute to variations in tooth size among modern human ...

ABOVE: Scientists are exploring the relationship between the expression of ancient viral DNA and neurodegenerative disease ...

Chinese scientists have successfully assembled the chromosomal-level genome of the critically endangered Ochetobius elongatus, a rare fish species from the Yangtze River.

The CDC said that a sporadic case of severe H5N1 bird flu illness in a person is not unexpected as has previously been ...

The study by Mabey et al., “Validation of a clinical breast cancer risk assessment tool combining a polygenic score for all ancestries with traditional risk factors,” presented a longitudinal clinical ...

For more basic information about genes, visit the Glossary. A rough draft of the human genome was completed in June 2000. Efforts are underway to complete a final draft of the human genome ...