UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

Biohacking has moved from niche experiments to a global movement reshaping how we think about human potential. With ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

A 50-year-old Gander man has been charged in Toronto for the 1998 murder of a young pregnant woman, after police there used DNA from the scene and investigative genetic genealogy to crack the cold ...

A rabbi reacted to the identification of his brother's remains, which were discovered in a field and then stored in the Lancaster County Forensic Center when investigators hit a roadblock.

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

Khorana’s research at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin and later at MIT helped decipher the ...

Factors like nutrition and muscle strength and size are all involved when it comes to your running speed, and your genetics ...

Epigenetics involves genetic control by factors other than ... In fact, these types of changes may be more common in human cancer than DNA sequence mutations (Figure 2). Because so many diseases ...

Racial disparities in mortality are increasing. This article explores how the production of DNA-edited ethnically diverse ...

It’s been nearly three decades since Atlanta-born child beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey was brutally killed in her Colorado home. Her family now hopes advances in DNA technology can help solve ...

Orville Moe’s letter to the editor “Created as unequal human beings” suggests that inequalities between individuals in society are unavoidable due to inequalities in human abilities. To put ...