A new study suggests that bedbugs were the first urban pest, and their population thrived in that environment. For the ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological ...

Cells are constantly subjected to DNA damage from a range of internal and environmental sources. It is estimated that cells ...

PepGen leverages a graph-based approach to improve the detection of hidden protein variants in a computationally efficient ...

DNA testing can provide insights into complex conditions like heart disease, high cholesterol, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

The human genome is broadly classified into the genome residing in the cell nucleus (nuclear DNA) and the genome residing ... the accumulation of multiple mutations in mtDNA with aging induces ...

In a 2015 study BGR reported that researchers discovered that elephants possess 19 extra copies of the TP53 gene, a powerful ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) can drive tumor development in some rare sinonasal squamous cell carcinomas (SNSCCs), according to ...

Researchers discovered a previously unknown function of RNA, potentially opening the door to new ways to treat cancer and ...