The study revealed that a gene common in some bats can reduce the production of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by up to 90%, which could help lead to new medical approaches to combating viral diseases.

Five years removed from the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists around the world are still studying its effects and, more importantly, ways those effects ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

Imagine your doctor calls you to discuss the results of your genetic testing. They tell you your results indicate you are ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

A novel, freely available AI tool has cut the time it takes to determine chromatin structure from days to minutes. The 3D ...

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

Gene therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis have evolved slowly, but one is ready to move into human trials and an ...

Othram Labs uses a process they call Forensic Grade Genome Sequencing. The process works to connect family members’ DNA to ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...