For decades, biology has relied on one central assumption: the genetic code is precise. DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is ...

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Doctors in Brazil discover and confirm that a woman has blood with male chromosomes, a rare case of human chimerism.

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

Changes to Queensland’s crime laws targeting the devastating failures in forensic testing by Forensic Science Queensland and ...

Explore the potential of gene therapy as a groundbreaking approach to curing diseases, beyond traditional pharmacological ...

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

Undergoing ultraviolet light sessions is as harmful as exposing yourself to the sun without any sunscreen. To understand why ...

Malaria cases have skyrocketed in Djibouti in recent years. Rachel Schraer reports on a British company helping produce ...

It’s hard to keep up with all the discoveries made around the world every year in science, but harder still to sort the hype ...

Scientists map the true nature of the genome with its loops and folds in four dimensions across time and space.

These genes are part of the non-coding genome, which makes up about 98% of our DNA and was long dismissed as “junk.” This new ...