One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

Decades after hikers found a man's remains in Wrentham, authorities plan to exhume the body in hopes of pinning down an ...

DNA testing of the remains has been scheduled in hopes of finding out who was in a truck found submerged in the Mississippi ...

Crews last week exhumed his body and took DNA samples they will compare with others in a national database that did not exist ...

Researchers created an interactive molecular map of the human body called COmics, based on extensive multiomics data. The ...

An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar (WCM-Q) have created an intricate molecular map of the human body and its ...

Every cell in our body contains the same DNA. This DNA contains the genetic information that ... embryo has the potential to ...

A study in Science Advances has shown that ancient viral DNA fragments can promote cancer cell growth. The LTR10 gene, from a ...

James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...

Until recently, it was assumed that the so-called "fossil viruses" were simply junk DNA with no important function in the ...

Researchers have gained new insights into the mechanism behind the spatial organization of DNA within the cells of early embryos. When an embryo is first formed after fertilization, each cell has the ...