Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

A study reveals how the essential red blood cell transcription factor KLF1 recognizes DNA. Using precise measurements in test ...

New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication.

What can genetics and palmistry tell us about how we understand identity, character and health? Adam Rutherford is joined by Professor of Zoology Matthew Cobb; the historian Professor Alison Bashford ...

The Human Genome Project changed everything. A map of the entire human sequence of DNA was the starting point for an enormous number of discoveries, from disease genes to how humans evolved. But DNA ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

Nature Communications article shows highly efficient and scalable gene insertion of long, single-stranded DNA donor templates ...