University of Wisconsin researchers Sushmita Roy and Erika Da-Inn Lee have developed a new computational tool that maps ...

More than a decade ago, scientists harnessed a bacterial molecular machine that identifies and cuts specific sections of DNA, ...

A new genetic engineering technique could make it as easy to rewrite a genome as it is to read it. Using the process, which grafts pieces of synthetic DNA into the genomes of dividing cells, ...

Why is DNA so important? Put simply, DNA contains the instructions necessary for life. The code within our DNA provides directions on how to make proteins that are vital for our growth, development, ...

It’s called a pangenome, and it could explain the DNA that makes each of us unique. The joke about the Human Genome Project is how many times it’s been finished, but not actually. The first time was ...

At the heart of each coronavirus is its genome, a twisted strand of nearly 30,000 “letters” of RNA. These genetic instructions force infected human cells to assemble up to 29 kinds of proteins that ...

Some viruses come and go after making us sick, but some have become a part of us, passed down by our ancestors. San Diego ...

The genetic variants that underlie microbial environmental adaptation are key components of models of microbial diversification. Characterizing adaptive variants and the pangenomic context in which ...