Not all parts of our genetic code are equal, even when they appear to say the same thing. Scientists have discovered that ...

More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions ...

Scientists have recently discovered a natural age counter in human DNA. This finding has reversed decades of study as we may ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there's a whole lot of DNA beyond genes that we are just starting to understand.

Around 45 percent of human DNA is made up of transposable elements, or TEs—genetic leftovers from now-extinct viruses that scientists once believed to be “junk DNA.” But that view is changing, and a ...

A model of human DNA is silhouetted against a window in the Sackler Educational Laboratory for Comparative Genomics and Human Origins during the media preview of the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of ...

WASHINGTON - The book of genetic instructions for the human body is complete to an accuracy of 99.99 percent, a scientific achievement once deemed impossible but now considered the foundation for a ...