Scientists have discovered Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a unique archaeon residing within marine plankton, challenging traditional definitions of life. This microbe possesses a stripped-down genome, ...

It is one of the biggest jobs in youth football but what is required of the person to take over United's academy?

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

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

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

As war continues to rage in Gaza and Ukraine, there is concern about how the related trauma might be transmitted to future ...

Plant RNA viruses pose a significant threat to global agriculture, affecting a vast array of crop species and leading to ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...