Mysteries surround the elusive Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate in the world. Researchers have new insight into the unique fish’s genetic makeup.

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

Chances are you've seen an illustration of DNA's double-helix structure and even pictures of the chromosomes that make up the human genome. But where and how does the famous double helix fit into ...

The Homo sapiens genome today contains ... So we can look for bits of Neanderthal DNA sequence in the genomes of modern humans. The genomes of all human lineages originating in Europe contain ...

A research team has recently constructed a global polymorphism genetic map of variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs), termed ...

search for genes linked to different types of disease understand inherited disorders and their treatment trace human migration patterns ... when the enzyme does not work properly, high levels ...

Humans didn’t need modern technology to figure out that kids tend to look like their parents ... could make something as complicated as a baby human was if it was already put together and ...

“I like to remember how important 1953 was in ... the emergence of biotechnology and then the sequencing of the human genome made us to reach a second peak where systems biology is located.

Around mid-2000, the Human Genome Project ... evolved or does that continue to be the case? The law has eased out, but the situation is not that critical now because companies like us have labs ...

Like all pufferfish, the fugu has an extremely small genome, roughly one tenth the size of that of other vertebrates. But what does this difference mean to the human and pufferfish species?