The Archon X PRIZE for Genomics challenges scientists and engineers to create better, cheaper and fa

Scientists say that surprisingly many large chunks of human DNA differ among individuals and ethnic

The scientists still don't know specifically what the gene does. But they know that this same gene t

By engineering its genetic blueprint, they have rebuilt a gene that was present in primitive animals

The genetic code of an important group of methane-producing microbes has been sequenced by German sc

Sometimes only one twin will have health problems when genetics predicts both of them should.

A Wakefield researcher may have found a strain of mice immune to cancer.

In news of the odd connection today, sciencetists may have learned something new about mammoth fur b

Bacteria are so important to key functions such as digestion and the immune system that we may be tr

RNA, previously believed to be responsible only for the creation of proteins, may actually be involv

An analysis of our genetic history suggests speciation from chimpanzees may not have been a clean br

Gene scientists claim to have found proof that the Welsh are the "true" Britons.

A British woman has become the first in the country to conceive a "designer baby" selected specifica

A mathematical analysis of the human genome suggests that so-called "junk DNA" might not be so usele