DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

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

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 ...

DNA from Beethoven's hair, snipped as keepsakes by his admirers, has finally orchestrated a genetic encore that's hitting all the right notes with scientists.Were he alive today, Beethoven might have ...

Chronic hepatitis B infection is primarily driven by persistence of HBV cccDNA and integration of HBV DNA into the human genome in liver cells, the primary source of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg ...

Furthermore, PBGENE-HBV was not distributed to germ cells at any of the analyzed timepoints, supporting the conclusion that there is no risk of heritable genome edits.

Atomic force microscopy images show hepatitis B DNA in its natural state (left) and a zoomed-in look at how it wraps around human histones during an infection (right). The research team determined ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, research led by MSK, Weill Cornell Medicine, and The ...