Researchers analyzed ancient and modern genetic samples of the Greenlandic Qimmit breed to shed light on the long ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. Technology Networks explored the ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) will take decades to complete and cost anything from millions to hundreds of ...