Long-read DNA testing diagnosed 35% of previously unsolved inherited muscle disease cases, detecting complex genetic changes ...

Newswise — The transmission of biological traits from one generation to the next is generally attributed to DNA. But could some changes be passed on without altering the DNA sequence? Scientists at ...

Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies, known as "sister chromatids," are held together by a ring-shaped protein ...

In 2010, researchers searching through viral DNA stumbled upon something that didn’t belong there. Inside the genome of a ...

The remarkable intelligence of octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish may trace back to an ancient reshuffling of their DNA that ...