All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...

Researchers have identified 34,364 people in Pakistan who carry at least one gene that has been completely knocked out by ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Deep within tropical forests, sloths move at a pace that seems almost frozen in time. Their slow movements, low energy use, ...

On Monday, the Nobel Committee announced that two US researchers, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, will receive the prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of a previously unknown mechanism ...

Scientists find Arctic microbes swap DNA far more often than expected, offering new clues about climate change and carbon storage.

Baylor College of Medicine researchers are part of a collaborative research group with AstraZeneca and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that have identified 22 genes which increase the risk of ...

Genes account for roughly 50 percent of hoarding risk among women, while the shared family environment contributes little.

Researchers at McMaster University have discovered what they describe as a "megacluster" of genes in Streptomyces bacteria ...

Ambitious public education policies have the capacity to cushion the role of the "genetic lottery" in people's life chances.