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 ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

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.

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

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

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

A team of researchers is beginning work on creating new tools that could eventually lead to the synthesis of the human genome ...

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