It's not often a famous composer helps solve a 200-year-old mystery, but DNA from Beethoven's hair might actually do that.

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

The scientists state that epigenetic clocks based on the entropy of methylation states predict chronological age with ...

Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus, where DNA is coiled, is no larger than a ...

The GenomeIndia study found 180 million genetic variants from the whole genome sequencing of 9,772 individuals.

Colossal Biosciences "resurrects" dire wolves with genetic editing, sparking ethical and ecological concerns in conservation ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) – a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago.

Just because scientists claim they have now brought back the extinct dire wolf, should we consider ‘bringing back’ more ...

A study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children's ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...

Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS)—the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer ...

Guest Opinion. The Dire Wolf is said to have become extinct about 10,000 years ago. It was a true North American carnivore, ...