Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s ...

A global revolution in genetic sequencing is helping University of Otago scientists solve the mysteries of ultra-rare disorders, for one family at a time.

Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called ‘junk DNA’ contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. When people picture DNA, they often imagine a set of genes ...

A groundbreaking cattle genome has given researchers their clearest look yet at what makes Wagyu beef so special. By ...

Bowel habits aren't exactly dinner-table talk. But they reflect how quickly the gut moves things along, and when that goes wrong people can experience constipation, diarrhoea, or irritable bowel ...

A large genetic study of more than 260,000 people, published in Gut, has identified DNA variants linked to how often people have bowel movements, offering new insight into gut motility. Alongside ...

Underground environments like soil and aquifers teem with microbial life. These tiny microbes play a big role in cycling ...

Modern DNA kits make it easy to learn where your ancestors came from—just order a test, swab your cheek, and mail it to a lab ...

Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.