Like “The Castle,” the human genome is an unfinished work ... This idea was first popularized in his 1976 book, “The Selfish Gene,” which built on the ideas of the biologist W.D. Hamilton as ...

The rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet ...

Researchers at Stanford Medicine have developed an AI-based method to identify complex structural variants in the human ...

With the flurry of media attention surrounding the race to sequence the genome ... of telephone books. If you feel bombarded, imagine how the decoders feel: If written out, a human genetic ...

Colossal, a US firm that is aiming to revive lost species such as the woolly mammoth, says it now has a near-complete genome of the extinct thylacine ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA ...

As debunked ideas from race science experience a resurgence, the history of psychology and eugenics highlight the perils.

A recent change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines contains newly added language that appears to permit ...

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.

The newly assembled genome is similar in size to a human genome, consisting of 3 billion base pairs of nucleotides — the molecules that form the rungs of the DNA ladder. Forty-five gaps remain ...

This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting.

In his intellectually sparkling and beautifully crafted “The Genetic Book of the Dead ... Like “The Castle,” the human genome is an unfinished work, its current state representing a snapshot ...