Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

A traditional cassette tape holds roughly 10 to 12 songs on each side, but 328 feet of this DNA cassette tape could hold the ...

Scientists in Tokyo have uncovered “Inocles,” massive strands of extrachromosomal DNA hidden inside bacteria in human mouths. These giants, overlooked by traditional sequencing, could explain how oral ...

Some viruses come and go after making us sick, but some have become a part of us, passed down by our ancestors. San Diego ...

Breakthroughs in DNA science help solve a case that remained unsolved for decades, bringing long-awaited answers ...

The genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, prompting people who’ve used the service and sent in DNA samples to be analyzed to wonder what will happen to their genetic data. The ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, an American nonprofit academic medical centre, an mRNA vaccine trains your body to fight infectious diseases by delivering instructions to make a small, harmless ...