Among genebanks, there is something called the black box system, where you can send seed duplicates to another genebank for ...

AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.

Take a look back at the genetics stories that resonated most with readers this year. M uch of what shapes people’s lives ...

Exodus, a new space-faring RPG coming from Archetype Entertainment, features a sprawling sci-fi canon written by Hamilton, Tchaikovsky, and more.

An experimental gene therapy seems to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease by about 75 per cent, and researchers are ...

DNA origami cages constrain individual proteins toward preferred orientations on electrodes, dramatically improving electrical measurement precision and enabling detection of subtle structural changes ...

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was. It ...

Here’s a fun (and creepy) fact: The Earth is home to approximately 20 quadrillion ants. To put zeroes on it, that’s around 20,000,000,000,000,000 of the six-legged insects living all around us. How ...

A sprawling illegal trade in prenatal testing has triggered alarm – less about illegal sex selection than about who might end ...

Juanita Francisco’s son Eddie recalls that when he was 13 years old, the antibiotics he was given for an infection caused an allergic reaction in the form of severe asthma attacks. So as not to ...

Adolf Hitler had a sexual disorder that made it more likely for him to have a micro-penis, according to the first-ever analysis of his DNA. He also did not have the Jewish ancestors that some have ...