DNA is often called the blueprint of life, but what does that really mean? Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Genetics in the Heersink School of Medicine, explains everything ...

In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

A new article analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have often been neglected in structural models of chromosomes. The study demonstrates that the multilaminar ...

DNA testing company 23andMe announced that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 23. Customers send vials of their saliva to 23andMe for results on ancestry and health. The company can run ...

Now, researchers at UNSW Sydney have discovered a group of these switches that help control how brain cells called astrocytes ...