Scientists discovered a way to block hepatitis B infection using an anticancer drug, offering hope for new treatments.

Cornell University researchers have discovered a new mechanism these genes use to survive and propagate in bacteria with ...

This week’s 15th annual RootsTech 2025 convened significantly more attendees than last year, from virtually every country in ...

Adoption is not the same as childbirth. People want children who are born from their blood, who bear their DNA, who are somehow considered more “legitimate” than others. But when a parent has or ...

Researchers have uncovered mechanisms by which mobile genetic elements integrate into the chromosomes of bacteria with linear genomes.

Ezra Izer discusses the genetic analysis that has supposedly identified Jack the Ripper ...

Scientists at Cornell University have uncovered a new mechanism that bacterial transposons —often called “jumping genes” —use ...

DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another – are key to bacterial evolution and the development of ...

MSK researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a ...

Transposons have been found clustered at the chromosome ends in eukaryotic cells, but this is the first time it's been ...

Transposons, or "jumping genes" - DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another - are key to bacterial ...