When scientists first decoded the human genome a decade ago, they expected a fairly straightforward set of directions for making you or me. What they found was quite different. Most of our DNA doesn't ...

Scientists have taken a bold and controversial step toward creating synthetic human DNA from scratch, a move some critics liken to 'playing God.' The research aims to unlock new treatments for ...

Researchers in the USA genetically engineered common E coli microbes to add DNA molecules which are not naturally found in the bacteria. Throughout the history of life on Earth, the code of life has ...

One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function are ...

What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international study reveals that ancient viral DNA buried in our genes plays an active ...