Scientists have created an artificial RNA system that can copy itself using simple building blocks and temperature changes.

The term “Strand Game” didn’t exist until Death Stranding. Hideo Kojima, never one to avoid inventing a new language, ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

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

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

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

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

In 1968 James Watson published The Double Helix, his highly personalized and controversial account of the events. It ...