Me filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, hit by faltering demand for its ancestry testing kits as it struggled to contain the ...

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

We will discover new tools, new ways that we can help species that are still alive but in danger of becoming extinct.” ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health challenge, affecting millions each year. Globally, an estimated 10.8 million people ...

Transgenic animals continue to play an essential role in many aspects of zebrafish research, including the development of disease models. The most widely used system for zebrafish transgenesis is the ...

The Xerces blue butterfly went extinct along the San Francisco coast some 80 years ago. But scientists have identified a ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...

The study found that gastric cells in some individuals carried three copies of certain chromosomes, hinting toward exposure ...

A first-of-its-kind DNA ... compare with anonymised health and survey information from people involved in the studies. Dr Carl Anderson, interim head of human genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute ...

Scientists have systematically analyzed somatic mutations in stomach lining tissue to unpick mutational processes, some of which can lead to cancer. The team also uncovered hints of a potential new ...

For the first time, scientists have systematically analyzed somatic mutations in stomach lining tissue to unpick mutational ...