Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...

To build the map, researchers at Columbia University and the University of Bordeaux took a slice of a frozen human brain and, ...

Genetic testing company 23andMe has declared bankruptcy. What does it mean for the genetic data of 15 million people who had ...

DNA microscope creates 3D images of organisms from the inside out. (Image: Weinstein Lab, University of Chicago) ...

A new study suggests a far more intricate genetic tapestry is involved in the ultimate ancestry of people in Japan.

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

A test for abnormal fetal chromosomes can also detect maternal cancers—and physicians are struggling to incorporate that ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have demonstrated that a genetic method called "pooled prime editing" can screen ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems. Now an interdisciplinary ...

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The first complete DNA methylation atlas of 39 human cell types reveals which genes can talk or are silenced, depending on whether their sequence is linked to methyl group epigenetic modification that ...