LIYAM CHITAYAT is a Hertz Fellow and MIT Ph.D. student in Computational Systems Biology. She has previously led biodefense ...

LACEY, Wash. — The remains of someone who was found 16 years ago have finally been identified, thanks to advanced DNA ...

Plant roots are essential for both food production and climate, yet until now they have been nearly impossible to measure accurately. Researchers at Aarhus University have now developed a method that ...

A research team at Kyoto University has discovered STAG3-cohesin, a new mitotic cohesin complex that helps establish the ...

DNA doesn’t knot under stress. A new study finds it coils into plectonemes, reshaping models of genome mechanics. For decades ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

A Prince William County jury on Aug. 21 convicted a Florida man in a 1987 rape and abduction at a Woodbridge gas station in a case that marks the first time a U.S. court has successfully identified a ...

Genetic information can be life-saving in a medical emergency, yet it's still rarely collected from adults -- even when doctors are struggling to make a diagnosis. New research shows Americans need ...

NASA may be approaching the discovery of biological life in Mars. The space agency confirmed the DNA signal they received and ...

Argentina, widely regarded as the global capital of polo, has welcomed cloning and other breeding innovations. But CRISPR is different – for now.

Aarhus University researchers developed a DNA-based method to measure plant roots in soil without destructive digging.

Scientists are already for research into synthetic "mirror" lifeforms to be banned outright in order to save humanity.