When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

A compound found in psychedelic mushrooms may have antiaging properties. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have found ...

A compound found in psychedelic mushrooms may have antiaging properties. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have found ...

Scientists have fully sequenced the Y chromosome for the first time, uncovering information that could have implications for the study of male infertility and other health problems.

People with cancer have different amounts of a type of repetitive DNA - called Alu elements - than people without cancer.

Piecing together the human Y chromosome was tricky because of lots of repetitive DNA, but researchers have finally finished the whole puzzle. N. Hanacek/NIST ...

The rest are nonfunctional repetitive sequences long deemed “junk DNA,” though scientists now know that it’s not actually junk. A lot of that genetic gibberish can affect how genes function.

The Y chromosome, which normally confers male characteristics, features large amounts of repetitive DNA, which meant it was difficult to compile a complete sequence until now ...

Host cells freely and liberally take genetic sequences from parasitic DNA and make them part of the normal genome — or, to look at it another way, the parasites ingratiate themselves with their hosts ...