In 2008, genetic research suggested that Ötzi’s maternal lineage was extinct. His mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) carried a rare signature never observed in any living person, leading researchers to ...

The Eurasian common shrew reduces its brain and organs by up to 20 percent each winter, then regrows them using genetic switches.

The rise of gene editing forces regulators to confront a difficult question: How to protect fair play in the age of genomic medicine.

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna wants to build an entire ecosystem to bring these treatments ...

Age-related changes in protein tagging and degradation may help explain how the brain declines over time and why diet can still influence these processes.

Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions. Yet breeding improved varieties—plants that are more resilient, produce ...

The new method developed by Rutgers researchers distinguishes between existing microbes and contamination in tissue samples.

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

Abstract: The exponential growth of data has brought full-size challenges in corporation and management. Cloud computing, with its scalability and value-performance, has become critical for data ...

The human genome is made up of about three billion pairs of DNA units called nucleotides. Olena_T via Getty Images Scientists at Google DeepMind—the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say ...