The ancient pachyderm was preserved in permafrost, providing the most intact RNA ever studied.

(Reuters) - The Tasmanian tiger, a dog-sized striped carnivorous marsupial also called the thylacine, once roamed the Australian continent and adjacent islands, an apex predator that hunted kangaroos ...

Infectious viruses come in many shapes and sizes and use slightly different attack mechanisms to make humans and animals sick. But all viruses share something in common: They can only do damage by ...

Almost 40,000 years ago, a juvenile woolly mammoth died in modern-day Siberia. Today, its long-frozen remains have yielded ...

Researchers from the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan and international partners have reported a novel ...

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambry Genetics ® (Ambry), a leading clinical genetic testing company, announced today the launch of +RNAinsight ™, a major advancement in genetic ...

For many people with fragile X, the mutated gene that causes symptoms is active rather than silenced. Thom Leach/Science Photo Library Fragile X syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by a mutation in ...

DNA consists of a code language comprising four letters which make up what are known as codons, or words, each three letters long. Interpreting the language of the genetic code was the work of ...

Ian Haydon is a graduate student at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design. If you’ve ever bought a new iPhone, you’ve experienced good packaging. The way the lid slowly separates ...