According to a recent international study, fragments of ancient viral DNA once considered "junk" may in fact play a role in ...

Several genetic variants associated with social behavior in honey bees are located within genes that have previously been ...

Researchers have found that nearly three-quarters of the population carry newly identified genetic elements called Inocles, which may influence oral health, immunity, and cancer risk. Researchers at t ...

There are plenty of fish in the sea, but how can you count stock levels or protect endangered fish without seeing or catching ...

The method offers a scalable way to scour unculturable bacteria for new drug leads and help illuminate a previously hidden microbial world.

For decades, scientists have struggled to untangle the genetic complexity of crops with multiple chromosome sets.

Most antibiotics come from bacteria, but since most bacteria cannot be grown in the lab, many potential drugs remain ...

Mitochondria act as energy factories in cells and have their own, separate DNA. Mutations to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have ...

We have all heard people say that love heals. But what if science actually backed that up? Beyond just emotions, a researcher recently claimed that love can literally affect your body at a genetic ...

TRENDING NOW As Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump took the first step to patch up the ties that had gone sour amid trade tensions, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on ...

This study demonstrates that NGS-MSI is noninferior to IHC-MMR and can identify MSI-H tumors that IHC-MMR is unable to detect and conversely IHC-MMR can identify MMRd tumors that NGS-MSI misses. This ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...