An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital role in gene expression.

STORY: This skull belongs to a previously unknown lineage of human beings, dating back about 6,000 years ago.That’s according ...

A research team at Kyoto University has discovered STAG3-cohesin, a new mitotic cohesin complex that helps establish the ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

From the Human Genome Project to large-scale initiatives like the UK Biobank and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the recent ...

New genome mapping doubles known variants, tiny detector catches elusive neutrinos, and NASA accelerates lunar nuclear race ...

Thousands of previously “invisible” microproteins—tiny chains of fewer than 100 amino acids—can profoundly change human ...

The translocation most typically found in mantle cell lymphoma drags a powerful regulatory element into a new area of the human genome.

Translocations are chromosomal "cut and paste" errors that drive many lymphomas, a type of blood cancer and the sixth most ...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered the cold sore virus reshapes the human genome's architecture, rearranging its shape in three-dimensional space ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings under the mountain and the last of its lineage,” Slimak told the website ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...