A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...

LINE-1 retrotransposons are mobile genome parasites that drive cancer evolution by reshuffling the host genome.

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

A pair of papers published this week in the two leading scientific journals mark the completion of the Human Genome Project and the start of a new project to find all of the functional elements in ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Since its development in the late 1970s, DNA sequencing has become one of the most influential tools in biomedical research, with technologies evolving continuously and new applications emerging over ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...