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

Researchers have created the most comprehensive map to date of DNA elements that regulate gene activity, nearly tripling the ...

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...

For millennia, evolution has intrigued many great thinkers, prompting questions about how new traits emerge as species adapt over time. Then, attention shifted to natural selection and the inheritance ...

In patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), crucial cells in the retina known as rods and cones die over time; night ...