The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

A new study has revealed that "junk DNA" descended from ancient viruses could play a key role in controlling genes.

Genetics and drug discovery had its origins in the 1980s with the development of positional cloning technology—that is, using genetic markers to map and identify the genes responsible for Mendelian ...

Researchers used ShortStop to Identify a microprotein that potentially represents a biomarker or functional microprotein for lung cancer.

Researchers have developed a machine learning tool that explores overlooked DNA regions in search of microproteins that may ...