DNA's double helix has long stood as the symbol of life’s code. But buried within the genome lies a deeper level of complexity.

Publication on novel Saphyr-based method to analyze DNA replication in human genomes could enable new level of cancer research and drug discovery, exemplifies the importance of optical genome ...

In another comparison of a study published in Cell in 2022 and the current Johns Hopkins work, the 2022 study reported fungal ...

The ability to sequence and edit human DNA has revolutionized biomedicine. Now a new consortium wants to take the next step and build human genomes from scratch. The Human Genome Project was one of ...

Vast sections of the human genome that were previously thought to have no useful function and were dismissed as "junk DNA" are in fact involved in key biochemical processes, an international team ...

A British study is considering how human DNA is used in animal experiments and determining what the boundaries of such controversial science might be.

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child belonged to neither Homo sapiens, who had arrived in the region from Africa, ...

You, my friend, are what scientists call a "holobiont"- an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of microscopic species living inside you and on your body.