In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Transposable elements have proliferated in the bacterium Enterococcus faecium, altering its metabolism and genome structure.

Working on human pus in a medieval castle, Miescher discovered a substance that would eventually unlock our understanding of ...

Ancient DNA from a tomb near Paris reveals a shocking prehistoric reset: one population vanished and was replaced by ...

PBGENE-HBV is Precision's wholly owned in vivo gene editing program under investigation in a global first-in-human clinical trial, which is designed to be a potentially curative treatment for chronic ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

A new study finds the proteins responsible for controlling which genes are expressed in a genome do more than simply turn a ...

Some 254 million people live with a chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection that is often asymptomatic for decades, only to ...

More than 250 million people worldwide live with chronic hepatitis B (HBV), yet there is still no accessible animal model for studying the disease or testing novel therapies. Researchers have now ...

Although the genetic material of most living organisms is DNA, various self-replicating agents rely instead on RNA, including ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have been awarded project grants to investigate weaknesses in cancers which could lead to new treatments.